DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

RY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. MENTAL PATIENT ASSAULTED. WARDER GETS TWO MONTHS. AUCKLAND, . opt. 18. For assaulting au inmate of the Mental Hospital, an attendant. George Itougla.s llnigli, was sentenced to two moiitlis imprisonmcift. The man assaulted was 71 yea s of age. He had made a complaint against accused alleging the latter had .struck him. Evidence was given by another lationt and tin attendant, that the accused had struck the oumplaiiiant hitting the latter on the lace with his baud. An examination showed the i-.Mnplain-Mit had an abrasion over the right eyebrow. a l-lack eye, and two bruises over the right buttock. Defendant’s counsel said the accused was only twenty veins eld. lie had had no oxj.ericm e or training for the important work. He had fifty patients to watch. The nature of the work made him fairly nervous. If a proper inquiry had been made, tin- ad-used, who had a irimimil record, would never have been employed. He had simply shaker, tin old man by the coat. Mr | nyiilcn. S.M.. said the otl'eme was a serines one, and could not be overlooked. Chief Detei live Cummings said the ae us.-d. when engaged, did not give his i orre-t name. EX-SOLDIER’.S DEATH. CHRISTCIII'RC 11. Sept. 10. James Shannahan, aged .'hi, died at the C liristehiliiTi Hospital to-day, while under au anaesthetic. He was admitted to have some teeth extracted, but lie :ollap.s.d as lie wa.s being injected with the anaesthetic.

Shaimahan was a member ol the Main Roily of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, lie served in Gallipoli and in Egypt. Prior to the war. lie was engaged as a clerk with the Napier Harbour Board, ami latterly he had been employed by Hi - ( hristi-liuieh City C’.uimil. II- leaves a widow and an iutaiil son. He was a son of Mr -I. Shanahan, the owner Mid licensee ol the l-'oiester.s Arms Hotel. HOTEL’S NARROW ESCAPE. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. WELLINGTON. Sept. 20. The Albert Hotel, one of the oldest hostclries in the i ity. was found on lire late last night. The lire Was lo atid in the cellars and though leaking sc: ions, it was extinguished. It is supposed that ail employee dropled a cigarette in the straw and half au hour later three bedrooms on the second Hour were found alight and all burning lien- -ly. They were badly damaged before being .suppressed. Incendiarism is suspected in this

DAMAGES AGAINST A DOCTOR. HAMILTON. Sept. 20. At the Sn 1 ri-mi- (unit, counsel applied ,'or a new trial in the case in wliilt Mis .Marjory I :iv. reiia- was awarded two thousand damages at Auckland a lew weeks ago oil the grounds if negligence by defendant, as a •medical practitioner, in the treatment for earner. The -rounds of the application were that the verdict was against the Weight id’ evident e; that the di-mages were extensive: and that the dodge misdireitd the jury. The application was refused by Mr JustiiSt ringer. BONING FATALITY. DUNEDIN. Se|l. 20. At the Boxing tonrnev at Palmer ■don N'i rt!i last night, in the final of the in idi 11 •-w i i 111 contest. Ronald Mc- (’ ilium. of Goodwood, fell from a blow. rib in- th- bad- o’’ Id- head on the ll.n .-. A medical i-xainimil inn showed a Iradur-il shall ■■lid M-C ilium quickly -auk and expired. DEATH <>K SIR JOHN SALMON I). WELLINGTON. September 2tb Obituary. -Suddenly, last niglit. from heart trouble. Sir John Sulmund. THEFT CHARGES. WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. Robert Snowden Hush, formerly a clerk in the Native Trust Department was commit led ior trial uti a charge cf having stolen CS>B from the Department. and LoB Irom Thomas John Mulligan. Push is alleged to have appropriated moneys coming to the Department hv clients’ falsified books. Mulligan. a clerk in the Department, was in the hi.Miilal, and Bush is alleged 1,1 have obtained his Savings Bank bunk by false pretemes ami drew nut tin- L’T:b