In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20124, 18 April 1928, Page 6

In the Dominion

A Dunedin Press Association message states that William Hassett was charged at the Milton Court yesterday with the attempted murder of Albert Lloyd (who was wounded in the abdomen with a pocket knife) and was remanded till Monday.

An Auckland message states that Mr Frank Bull’s residence at Mangere, of twelve rooms, was destroyed by fire at noon yesterday. Only a portion of f|e contents were saved. The house was insured for £l7OO and the contents for £650.

The biennial conference of the staff officers of the New Zealand military forces opened yesterday in Wellington, General Young, G.0.C.,* presiding. The conference will extend over two davs.

The annual conference of the Church of England Men’s Society opened at Wellington yesterday. An address was given by Bishop Sprott, in which he ascribed the failure of the society to increase its membership as being principally due to the great upheaval in religious matters generally.

Three burglaries took place on Saturday evening at Lower Hutt within a short radius, and £5O worth of jewellery is said to be missing from one house and £3O of jewellery from another, also clothing, and clothing from a third. In the first instance !«■»' wife was alone at home. Hearing a noise she went to investigate, but the intruder switched off the light and vanished through a window.

A distressing fatality occurred on Monday evening when Gladftt Rae, three years old, the daughter of Mr. John Alabey, a farmer at Papatawa, was severely burned through tampering with the fire, her clothes catching aJight, states a Woodville message. The mother was absent at the moment to get the mail, and returned to find the child in a bad way. Afcdiml aid was summoned and the child taken to hospital at Dannevirke. She died at 11 o’clock.

A five-roomed house in Boundary road east, outside the Palmerston North borough boundary, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The occupants, Air and Airs Alorgan and family, were awakened by smoke at five o’clock and barely had time to escape. Little of value was saved. The outbuildings were prevented from destruction by the use of the house supply of water.

Fines totalling over £2OO were imposed at Wellington yesterday on men arrested as the result of the raid on the Premier Club on the night of April 9. One of the keepers, Francis Law, was fined £lOO, and the other keeper, Thomas Dwyer, was fined £4O. All but one of the defendants reversed their pleas of not guilty entered at the first hearing. One charge was dismissed on a technical point. Of the 45 men found on the premises six did not appear in Court at the first hearing and were fined £3. Another was dealt with previously, and the remainder were fined in sums ranging from £2 to £5. The charge against Isaac Kutner of assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house was dismissed.

Thomas Tapp, an elderly settler of Rotowaro, succumbed at the Hamilton Hospital yesterday. He was severely injured on Saturday when a motor truck at his home backed and crushed him against a stump. He had just brought his wife home from the hospital..