DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 8, 20 December 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

Auckland, December 19

At tile inquest on the body of Gerald Alf red .uiyiie, tne victim ox a ib owning accident m fc>i. George’s nay on fc.iun.iay, a verdict oi aecideuu.i dealu uy mow.dug was returned. Ine evidence snowed mat Albert .Nelson, oi i'amell, was first to observe tne accident, and putting off in a dinghy,

secured tne deceased and took nim lasnore, other rescuers picking up three omer members or tne cap.si/.cu crew, m recording their verdict tne jury guv'o expression to the appreciation .o Albert .Nelson’s plucky action. It was reported in yesterday’s cables that tne steamer Zealanaia had oeen quarantined at Sydney owing to an outbreak ox diphtheria. The message, it appears, referred to another vessel, the /ealandic. The lluddart Parker Proprietary received information by cable to-day that the Zealandia, which is due to arrive here on Friday, is a clean ship. Gisborne, December 19.

A farmer of the district, named Major Shind, was found dead on the road at Waiherelicre to-day. A post mortem will bo held to-morrow, lucre are no details.

An electrical storm passed over Gisborne this morning, and welcome rain fell througnout tne day.

Wellington, .December 19. Granville Hunt, formerly in business in Wellington as an indent agent, was arrested to-day at Kinikini on a warrant issued in July, 1910, charging him with having forged, on tne 2uth of that month, the name of W. H. Nash to a promissory note for £i42 8s 10d, and uttering it to Wright, Stevenson, and Co. Accused is also charged with having forged and uttered a promissory note for £159 7s 9d on the same date and in respect of same individual. He was brought to Wellington this afternoon and will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in the morning, when the police will apply for a remand. A Keel ton man, named Coutts, aged 47, employed in the Ikamatua sawmills, built a small man-house, and arming himself with a charcoal stove and wet sacks, blocked up the aperture, filled it with charcoal fumes and was suffocated. People wondered why Coutts built a box so carefully. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Win. Whixon, a stevedore, who sustained a severe fall while working on the Manuka last Friday, died to-day in the hospital. He was a single man, aged about 45. A sling of cargo, which was being hoisted, struck him and sent him over the vessel’s side on to the wharf, 20 feet below. Ho struck a crane in his descent, and sustained a compound fracture of the skull and other injuries. Matthew Ritchlesh, a builder’s labourer, while engaged at the new Adclphi Theatre, fell from scaffolding 12 feet high, and sustained an injury to his spine. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. Ho is 42 years of ago. and, married. „ Christchurch, December 19.

At the Supreme Court Mr Justice Denniston delivered judgment in the case of Alexander Wildey (Mr Cassidy) v. Gibson (Mr Stringer), an appeal from the decision of Mr H. W. Bishop, Stipendiary Magistrate, under the Gaming Act of 1908. The appellant had been convicted of a breach of section 30, subsection 1, of the Act, on a charge of having printed a document containing a notification as to betting on horse racing in Now Zealand. It was proved that the appellant had printed what was generally known as a race card, which contained certain betting information, being the names of the horses engaged in certain forthcoming races, and the odds offered against the horses. It did not contain any name of any person in connection with such betting. Wiley had been fined £lO and. costs. His Honor, in giving judgment, said he agreed wiht Mr Justice Sim in Barnett v. Bishop, in which it was decided that the section should be read _as _ prohibiting the printing or publication of any document containing any advertisement or notification that any person, club, or association, named or indicated therein, was ready to make bets on any horse race. Therefore, as this document did not comply with such requirements, ho allowed the appeal. Arising out of the ejectment of certain members of the National Peace Council from the A. and P. Association’s Metropolitan Showgrounds last November, for having distributed an-ti-militarist literature, William Enson, Charles Robert Morris, Mackie Louis. Peter Christie, Charles Reginald Ford and Harry Albert Atkinson, suing on behalf of‘themselves and other members of the National Council in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, claimed from the Canterbury A. and P. Association £25 damages for breach of contract, £25 damages for trespass to the goods of the said council, and such other relief as the Court might consider them entitled to, and the costs of the action. After evidence was given the case was adjourned for legal argument to be taken on a date to lie fixed. The City Council to-night decided to reverse its previous decision rofusincr permission for the Plunket Shield cricket match to be played at Lancaster Park on Xmas Day.