DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TBLEGBAPH—PBEBB ASSN., COPYRIGHT. EIRE AT OAAIARU. O AMARU, Jan. 3. A lire at an early hour on Sunday morning gutter a fruit and confectionery shop occupied by .Mrs Regina Huddleston, and owned by William J. Clark.

The stock was insured in the United Office for £5(10. was valued at £7OO. A pianola, which was also lost was insured for ClB5 with the Bristol Piano Company. The building was valued nt £1750. and insured with the Yorkshire Office for £6OO. Damage to the building is estimated at £450.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE. BLENHEIM. December 31

Allen Lawson, thirty-eight, of AVellington, was drowned in Drydon Bay. Queen Charlotte Sound, on Tuesday. Lawson went out alone in a dinghy. The boat was found drifting with his coat and hat. Letters in his pocket showed his intention to commit suicide. The body lias not been recovered. CYCLIST INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, January 2. AYliile riding a push-bicycle along Lincoln Road early last evening, Bert Aulsebrook, a married man. residing at 60. Tweed Street. Richmond, sustained injuries to his bead as a result of his bicycle skidding on the tram. line. He was admitted to the hospital. MOTOR-CYCLE SKTDS. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 2.

At. T. Afaioncy. A. C. TTognu nod L. C. Aforrison, when riding on a motor-cvclc and side-chair along Cashel Street, near Stanmorc Road, on New Year’s Eve. met with an accident. paused by the machine skidding on loose gravel. TTicv were attended to in the out-patients’ department at the General Hospital.

DEATH TN AN" HOTEL. DDNEDTX. Jan. I. An inquest on John Murphy, who died at the Empire Hotel, was held Yesterday. Evidence showed that deceased in the early morning complained to the licensee of pains in the abdomen. He had Iteen given some brandy, and later had requested the porter to procure medicine from a chemist, which he had taken. A little later the licensee found deceased lying in a passage. A doctor was sent for, but the man expired shortly after his arrival. The coroner found that deceased died from heart failure, as a result of acute abdominal trouble, the nature of which could not he determined without a postmortem examination. The evidence had shown that deceased had not been drinking at the hotel. The coroner commented on the Tact that the _ licensee had not called a doctor earlier. It is possible that it, would not have saved the man’s life, but it was unfortunate that nothing further was done for deceased.

Afnrphy had been employed on public works at AHller’s Flat.

IJEG BROKEN BY FIREWORKS. DUNEDTX. Jan. 1. Last night at the Exhibition during a display of fireworks, a projectile from a large spectacular piece struck a pile of bombs, near which one of the Exhibition carpenters was, standing. The explosion which ensued broke his leg. Edward Lomas, who was engaged in connection with the fireworks display at tlie Exhibition on Thursday night, sustained a- fractured leg through a rocket explosion. He was removed to the hospital, where his leg was amputated.

FRACTURED PELVIS. DUNEDIN, Jan. 1. | Agnes Elizabeth Patrick, a widow, [ aged 09 years, who resided at 78 Colombo Street, Christchurch, and who ; arrived in Dunedin on December 19, died in a. private hospital here at 8.45 a.m. to-day. She bad been to I’ortobello, and arrived here on December 24. and when stepping off a ’bus she fell, and it is thought broke the pelvis bone. An inquest was opened and evidence of identification was given by 'Charles Andrew Cotton. Professor of Geology at Wellington. Tho inquest -was adjourned sine die.

DANGEROUS JERSEY BULL. NELSON, January 4

During the holidays, Air M. Rogers j. -Appleby, recently retired from the < "leaching profession, had a narrow es[.enpe from being gored to death by a | Jersey bull. Ho was attacked without ' warning and knocked down, but, for- . Innately, managed to escape. His only injuries are a broken rib and severe j bruises. The bull had been dehorned vand had its stumps about 3 inches long, - Jmfc For this, the consequences for Rogers would have been much more serious. ROOKIES FINED AUCKLAND January 3. Three bokniaker.s arrested on Saturday. pleaded guilty at the police court and were fined sums aggregating £350. Thomas Lecce was fined £2OO, James Abrahams £IOO, and Win. Beresford

.1-50. Detective Cummings said BorosTord did his betting in a city hotel, T.eeee in a billiard saloon, and Abrahams iu the street. All made bets with th'o constable. THROWING THE DAR.T. A FINE OF £5. GISBORNE, Jan. 4. I John Robert Lawrence, was fined 1 £5 and costs this morning l>v Mr Lev- 1 •rt’.v SAL. for conducting a game of f chance at a side show in a street in which one person threw a dart at a board of numbers, and others made bets on the result.