TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16211, 8 December 1926, Page 12

TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

SEARCH FOR, PRISONER

(Per Press A^ciation.} A search for tho prisoner, Samuel Arthur Pudney, is being jpdp in the Dominion road area in Auckland. It: is stated that, at the time of lus escape, Rodney was aiding the warders to search portion of the gaol cjuarry for cigarettes or other- prohibited articles, which were supposed to have been smuggled to the prisoners. Pudney intimated that he knew where articles were hidden about; the quarry, and offered to take the warders to the place of concealment. While the officers were engaged in starching with Pudney, he presumably doing the same thing, ho m'adp a dash lor freedom. NO PAY EOIi TIME OPE

Tho Minister for Public Works, having advised Mr. Jfolland, M-P., lie was unahlo tab pay for the time oft" of Public Works men who assisted in sav.rg lives and properties during the recent flood, the union'met in AVestport last night, ami passed the following motion': "That this meeting unanimously condemns the action or the Public Works Department in sjopping the wages of those ot : its'employees who lost time in endeavoring to save their own and other homes during the leeCnt floods. Wo would strongly urge that in this connection the Public Works Department should follow the example of the Marine Department, .Borough Council and Omuty Council, hone of whose employees were penalised by reason of tht'ir efforts to save Lfe aud property." !

J-'OUND WJL'JM THBOAT GASHED At 0 a.m. yesterday John Churchill Day, (iS, was found iu the bathroom, of- the hpiisc where he. resided m Chrisfphiircli, with his throat %tj)y gashed. Ho baft had a stroke four months ago,. tin 4 had boon in a very (le|nx'Ssed"coiHlitiOH. cve V SiBPP" 4fl was practically .paralytic Mrs. Burrows, the owner of .tho house where Day resided, found him still alive uud summoned medical assist ante immediately. At &80 he was admitted to the Ohristchurch hospital iu a dangerous condition, and despite, attention, died at 12.30. No trace was foumj of the' wpappn with which the act w;ts cpmipitied. The inquest w:rs ppoiujil !ukl adjourned! £l5O, FOB INJUR [BS In a case in Wellington yesterday whoroin Margaret' Both well Baxter, of Wgljjuefflf, was suing Stantqns, Ltd., garag'e'proprietors, for #.(000 Ipr injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a motor-cur cellisipii, wl|ich the plait)tiqil' alleged was being d|iven rckles%riiio juiy found/for the plaintiff fllie] awarded her JiifKi. NEWTIvIAE OBDEBED In (he trial of Elizabeth Ann Wylip* fc>r alleged ijlegal pse of tin "iusft'iimept, counsel addressed the Court at length. Mr. Wilford asked where there" was any element of dopbj, as ho submitted there* was in the present case, "accused should bo given the benefit. . ' H'is Honor summed up and tho jury retired'ht B.l'Q p.m. and returned four

hours later to announce that, they could not reach a decision. A fresh trial .for I)ie> present charge was fixed for the February sessions. Another indictment will be proceeded with to-morrow. Mr. P. S. Maeasscy prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. T. M, Wilford. urn! Mr. J. P. 15. Stephenson appeared for the prisoner. ■ ■ -

At tho inquest yesterday on Robert Mpray, of the .Tazzhuid R/Ovuo pqmpauy, who died suddenly at the Napier public hospital, the evidence showed that deceased died of heart failure, resulting from peritonitis, am} aggravated by anjiimesthettc. A ver-

dict was returned accordingly. , Of four Jugo-Slav.s who arrived at Auckland by the Marama from Sydney, threo did not' have permits to laud in the Dominion and will bo returned to Sydney.