DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

SERIOUS CHARGE

By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

PALMERSTON N., October 18

At the Police Court this morn nig, Paul Ludwig Ernest Franck, aged 48, pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault on males and was committed to the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence.

BURGLAR ARRESTED ?. '* i ,i •' ’< . ■ '

AUCKLAND, October 18

On arriving at his home at Melrose Road, an isolated part of Mount Rosfcill district, Sydney Franklin, aged 23, a market gardener, discovered a strange iftaii'in the' house and grappled with the intruder; There was a teifific struggle for fifteen minutes inside and outside the 1 house. The intruder struck Franklin oir the head three times with an iron jemmy. Franklin’s wife rushed to lier father-in-law’s house nearby and got the assistance of Franklin senior and three youths, witli whose help the intruder was tied up to a post and kept 'there until the Onehunga police'arrived, when he was arrested on a chatge of breaking and entering, June prisoner gave his ! name as Alfred James. It is hot believed to be his true name;

MASSEY COLLEGE. PALMERSTON N., October 18. W a new elaborate apparatus which vhas jhst hrfived} the.' laboratory.-at - the Dairy Research Institute is being prepared at Massey College-, which is at preseiit the scene of considerable activity in scientific organisation. H. -R.; Whitehead, who arrived at- the college this week- from Durham and Leeds Universities takes up the appointment . of; bacteriologist of the dairy research section. For six months prior to leaving England he visited the leading dairy research laboratories in Europe. While at Kilmarnoch lie investigated research methods * being •-applied to cheese ahd butter making. In England research work of considerable interest to the Dominion will he carried out concerning the best methods oif observing cleanliness- of , milking machines'where milk is - used i > town supply.

INQUEST ON MOTOR VICTIMS

HAMILTON; October 18

At Matamata, an inquest was held -;as to ; tlie deaths df Mrs Toi Piliama and her child on August llth, as" the result (of* a collision between, a motor car driven- by A. E. Raridrup, farmer, of Hinuera, :and a special train going from Auckland to Putaruru. Tlie enquiry lasted al dayv The C'brpner’s. verdict was that Randrup did not take sufficient’care to avoid the accident.

CIRCULAR SAW ACCIDENT.^ PAHIATUA, October 18. George Keast, farmer, Chairman of Mangatairtbka Dairy Coy., was using a circular saw at a, neighbour’s place for cutting . firewood',' When lie sustained severe, ihjuiies to-his-fight hand. .. At the public hospital his forefinger was amputated, and-also tlie middle one at the second joint.

FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH. d. d CHRISTCHURCH; October IS. •'A fire broke out this evening in a block of offices im Chancery Lane, and biimed out a stairway and part of a corridor b'elfbre the. Brigade had the outbreak under control. Damage was done to the extent of £250 to the stock of stationery and legal document forms in a storeroom used by Angus Donaldgon. Practically the only other sufferer was the owner of the block, George Judd: ‘p

OFF TO ANTARCTIC

SHIP FROM TASMANIA

HOBART, October 18, . The' ; whaling ship-” Kiel sett Alonso sailed to-day for the Ross Sea, with thirty Tasmanians as seamen, including a .ulidprgraduate. This is the Nielsen’s pirdtrip tb the Antarctic. She is likely, to link up with Sir G. Wilkins’ aerial explorations. She has taken/.supplies -of oil and aeroplane parts for Wilkins.

infuriated COW

ATTACK, ON THREE PEOPLE

AUCKLAND, October 17

George McConnell, a farmer of Axa Aka, was attacked by a cow yesterday afternoon. McConnell went to a paddock adjoining his homestead to bring "in-the cow, which had just calved. It charged him, and knocked him down, rendering him unconscious. Mrs McConnell, armed with a stick; went fe her husband’s assistance, but the infuriated beast knocked her down and stood over lifer. Screams brought S. McConnell, a brother, to the scene, and the cow then attacked him. Meanwhile Mrs McConnell ran to safety. J.t was some time oefore the cow was coaxed away, and eventually George McConnell was dragged to safety. A doctor was summoned and he found that McConnell was not seriously injured. He inserted three stitches in a wound in his head. Mrs McConnell is suffering from shock and- severe br,ui§es. Fortunately the cow had been dehorned.

HOUSE BURNT. 4 ' J . ■ ; y i, ' " : OTAKI, o<t. 19, A fide" last night totally destroyed a residence at Paraparaumu, owned by Ml L.- Adams and occupied by Mr Bell. The origin is a mystery.