DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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tragedy in gaol

WELLINGTON, September 12

Stanley Murphy, a mail who was arrested for drunkenness, was found hanged in his cell in the Petone Gaol. Ho had placed the cell bucket under the observation window, and had put his head through the aperture. The bucket had either been kicked, or had slipped, or been pushed away. AVlicn a constable called to inspect, he found Murphy strangled. EIRE AT BOARDINGHOUSE. AUCKLAND, September 12. , Four of the rooms of a In-roomed boardinghouse in Wellesley Street West were severely damaged by a fire which broke out shortly after one o’clock this morning. The furniture in the damaged rooms was practically all destroyed. In one room, a bathroom, the porcelain hath alone remained. One inmate of the boarding'-ouse. a Maori had to fight his way through the flames to get from his room. When the CityBrigade arrived, part of the roof had fallen in and the flames were leaping through the opening. Fortunately a brick wall separated a portion of the fire from the other houses in the block of wooden buildings. The building is owned by the Public Trust Office and is occupied by T. O’Connor.

REQUEST FOR 10s. TOTE. AUCKLAND. September II

A requisition signed by 261 members of the Club asking for tho installation of a 10s tote in the saddling paddock, was presented to the A.R.C. Of 221 members to whom the requisition was presented, only ten refused to sign. Others residing in country districts were not approached. RATES PAID. HASTINGS. September 11. Havelock North Town Board, which, was constituted in 1911. has every payment of rates levied by it since then paid up to March 31.st last. CHARGE OF THEFT. BLENHEIM, September 13. John Adair, aged 20, originally from Kaikoura. pleaded guilty to four charges of theft of bacon, ham, walnuts and potatoes. The police stated. Adair had good connections but had. drifted into criminal tendencies. In. one ease he made three visits within a. week to one residence. He was sentenced to two months at ‘Wellington, gaol on one charge and convicted and discharged on the others. A BOY KILLED. TE KCm, Sept. 13. A distressing fatality occurred at Awakinb at three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, ‘Patrick McDavitt. aged 13, being thrown from ; t horse and kicked in tho head, death resulting an hour later. The horse was startled by a passing motor ear. with the result that the rider wa.s unseated, thrown and kicked.

KIR JAMES ALLEY RETURNS. AUCKLAND, Kept. 13. Alter an absence of six years in London as New Zealand’s High Commissioner, Kir James Allen returned by (ho Aorangi yesterday. For the future lie lias no plans, but appears to bo plTysieall.v lit for many years of usefulness. Now that he is n free agent again he is able to express his views and convictions as to the nature of the London representative’s position. [t is important, he remarked, in an interview yesterday, that the people should realise what the position of High Commissioner means. They should bo' used more fully as channels of information between their own Government and the Government of Britain, without in any way committing their own Government. Cablegrams and despatches are not adequate. There is nothing like round the table talks' to maintain the communication, necessary at a standard of efficiency. Sir James will address the Chamber of Commerce to-day- and leave' for Wellington in the evening. He desires to see‘the Prime Minister before Mr Coates departs for London.

RROKKN LEG

GISBORNE. September'l3.

During the progress of a soccer match on Saturday, a player Kempson sustained a double fracture of the legthrough a collision with another player. At 'a subsequent stage of the same game rough play developed and one player was ordered off.