DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEOitAI’H —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT, A SHUNTER'S DEATH. PALMERSTON X., June 10. The Coroner’s inquiry was held today into the death of Denis Murphy, a shunter, who was killed by being run over by trucks in the local railway yanks 011 June 11. The evidence shoved that Murphy, after making up the train for Paekakariki. walked on to the platform, and then crossed the front of an engine that was blowing off (steam. He proceeded to cross a second set of rails, and a line of trucks on these rails knocked hint down. Thirteen waggons passed over Murphy, whose body was frightfully injured. An employee shouted a warning The blowing off r.f steam was responsible for .Murphy not seeing the cruel;?. Ii: reply to the Coroner. Mr Yullz. representative of the Railway Department, said that the blowing ntf ot steam could 110 L be eliminated. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, lie .said that, in view of llio dangerous nature of the work the men had to perform, and the risks they took, the Department should do .something to relieve the congestion in the yards. The lighting of the yards was not sufficient. Regarding iho blowing oiV of steam, the Department might look into the* matter, and sec whether it u::s not po-siblc to minimise the danger.

CTItKNA BREAKS IP. WAXGA.XFI. June 12. During the night the forward portion of the summer Cyrena drifted inshore and the stern half turned completely roll ml. exposing a broken gap to the full fury of the waves. This mottling tin l bulkhead between number three and four holds gave way and thousands of tins, eases and barrels poured out. The wreckage litters the Ci hi st for miles. FISHERMAN MISSING. THAMES, June 12. Anxiety is expressed regarding the fate nf a fishing launch that left Mercury Island on the 2nd. inst.. for Cuvier Island. It contained two men. William Silvcria and Charles Hanson, who have noi (since been beard 01. The men left their males to get bait fc fishing and it is feared the launch foundered in the easterly gale which raged that week.

BOYS WHO DON’T " PEACH.” REMARKS BY MR JFSTICE A I.I’ERS. BLENHEIM.. June Uk One of the wit nest's railed by the Crown Prosecutor In a ease heard at tin' pro-cut sittings of the Supreme Court was a i;> 1 1 of sitxecn. who retailed a conversation with the accused in which the latter told him that I"' had done a certain thing;. After hearing the evidence, his Honour. Mr Justice .Vipers, asked the witness where lie was educated, and was evidently a little surprised when the youth replied that he was at Nelson College for 2', years'. ■•Well." said his Honour, “did you not learn at Nelson ( ullage to address gentlemen such as the ( town Prosecutor and counsel for t h.<- deteme as

Witness: Yes. your Honour. Then you have 1 videtitiy forgotten a very valuable lesson, for I never once heard yni. ..;y ' Sir" during the course •‘I l our evidence. I bi’ii. again, did 101 l ever ieal'ii about boys ‘'pcai-bing on cadi other:- I don't understand, your I lonoiir. pi-limps the expression has changed nowadays. When I was"at school w» used to call ii "peaching.” but what I mean i- telling tales nil one another. That was not. approved at Nelson College. was it ? —No. sir. His Honour reverted to the subject, later in tiie afternoon when addressing the jury, lie said a very line thing was the old esprit Jc corps which would make a line, manly hoy -land up and lie Hogged before be would "split." " Perhaps,” added his Honour re-

~,l‘t! ullv, " liovs arc not so long at school nowadays, and there is not sttlfiejent time lor the development ot this