In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 8

In the Dominion

Before Justices of the Peace at Ashburton yestenday, William Robert Furniss, a garage proprietor, was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car. He was fined £lO and his license was suspended till the end of the registration year. RESIDENCE DESTROYED A seven-roomed dwelling at Po rangahau owned by Topi tc Kuru was destroyed eariy yesterday morning. The only occupant, George Tc Kuru, escaped in his night attire and nothing was saved. The building was insured for £7OO, and the furniture for £2OO. The fire originated in the kitchen but the cause is not known. A WELLINGTON TRAGEDY A man who was found on a seat at Lambton Station (Wellington) on Tuesday afternoon with a bottle of poison beside him, and who died in hospital shortly after admission has been identified as William Stewart. Deceased was a single man. FORGERY AND FRAUD George Edward Bellringer, aged 25, an Australian with many aliases and a long list of previous convictions, was sentenced at the Gisborne Police Court yesterday to three months’ imprisonment for forgery and false pretences at Maungaturoto and Whangarei. WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT Prisoners sentenced, by Judge Smith at the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday were: William Patrick Leary, for assualt and causing actual bodily harm, three years at the Borstal; Patrick Ernest Furlong Collin, ford assault on a male and an act with intent to insult or offend, nine months’ gaol; Thomas Christian Jensen for breach of probationary license, reformative treatment not exceeding two years. DEAD IN BED

Edward Tattnell, aged 45, a married man, was found dead in bad at 123 Madras Street (Christchurch) yesterday with a bottle of poison nearby. AVIATOR’S JOKE

“They’re not aJI mine,” said Charlie Ulm at a reception tendered to the crew of the. Southern Cross by the Christchurch R.S.A. on Wednesday night, when the chairman drew attention to the fact that the initial letters of the surnames of the fliers spelled the name ULMS. The reply of Flight-lieutenant Ulm created r«ars of laughter amongst “diggers,” who were evidently having a great time in honouring their flying comrades.

A KINDLY ACT Wednesday in Stratford was cold and bleak while rain fell most of the day. Standing on a railway siding was a waggon full of “bobby” calv.es awaiting connection for transport to Patea. Their seemingly miserable appearance touched the heart of a passer-by, who took it upon himself to hire a tarpaulin from the railway and had it spread over the truck, thus affording the calves some measure of comfort. MAKING A WILL

“It is surprising with what reluctance many persons face the important task of making a will,” said the Public Trustee in his annual report to Parliament the other day. “Statistics have been compiled in some countries and strikingly bear out this contention. Judging by the office statistics, I am of opinion that in New Zealand, at any rate, increasing numbers of perisons are realising its importance and arc taking steps by . means of testamentary directions to ensure the efficient administration of their estates and the protection of their dependants.” AN EMINENT SURGEON

Private advice has been received that a distinguished surgeon, Sir Watson Cheyne, will visit New Zealand towards the end of the year, and "’ill attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. to be held in Wellington early in 1929. Sir Watson Cheyne is Professor of Clinical Surgery, King’s College, London. He is an ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and is the author of many standard medical works. He is now in his 76th year. KABIITS NEAR TOKO A rabbit was shot on Tuesday within half a mile of Toko, and settiers arc perturbed at this evidence that the pest has made its appearance in the district. The animal was shot by Mr 8. Bielawski in a bush just across the. river from Toko and has been identified by experienced .abbiters. The presence of rabbits at Toko recalls the fact that about four years ago one was shot in the vicinity of the Radnor Road, but except for these isolated instances rabbits are unknown on the Stratford side of Strathmore, where the operations tof a rabbit board are tending to reduce the risk of the pest spreading. PRAISE FOR EGMONT “One gets a very big surprise on visiting New Zealand and investigating the printing trade to find it so wonderfully organised, and that the trade in New Zealand has very little to learn from other parts of the world,” said Mr Walton Turtle, a member of tht executive at the Intertype Corporation of America, at Auckland the other morning. Mr Turtle spoke with great, enthusiasm of Mount Egmont, which he was fortunate enough to visit on a brilliant day, and ’is opinion is that Taranaki’s snow-capped cone is more beautiful than the historic Fujiyama, in Japan. “Egmont has a more impressive setting,” he declared. “-‘Fuji’ is also a perfect cone, but the surrounding country is barren.”