DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A UNUSUAL CASE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Dec. 21

R. J. Hannah, a police constable, wno was dismissed from the force yesterday, was charged at the Police Court this morning with being in possession of an unregistered revolver. Sitb-Inspector McCarthy said the accused ,wlien questioned at the customary inspection, denied having the revolver in his possession, but one was found at the bottom of his box. He said lie had not registered it- because lac spring was broken. Counsel for accused 1 said Hannah was called off his beat yesterday and dismissed on tho spot. Sub-Inspector AJcCarthy said the revolver was the cause, not the reason, for Hannah’s dismissal. Air Hunt, S.At. fined accused £1 and costs, saying that had he not been a constable, the information might have been dismissed.

INQUEST VERDICT. NAPIER, Dee. 21

At the inquest on Harry Duncup Alorton, found drowned in the haribout) yesterday, a verdict of suicide wliilpj temporarily insane, was returned. U

FIRE DA At AGE. ) GISBORNE, December 21. gj Bignell Holmes garage at Tokomaruj Bay, a large wooden building, was de-l stroyed by fire this morning as the re- s suit of a mishap during vulcanising' operations. All the cars in the garagfe were saved, but material and plant was. destroyed. >■-,

■ A billiard saloon and shop occupied by AVi Pata and the Native Trustee’s office adjoining were also destroyed.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, Dec. 21. At nine o’clock this morning an elderly man walking on Grafton Bridge, where there have been several suicides recently, saw a young man with both feet over tho parapet apparently about to jump into the gully*. Ho caught hold of him by one foot and with tho assistance of two othtr men dragged him to a more certain foothold. ' }- : At the Police Court, Albert Lloyd Addison, 21, single, was charged witjh. attempted suicide. Tho police static] he was a timber mill machinist, oijit of work, and recently in the hospital for insomnia. He was remanded l : 6f medical observation. '•

ELECTROCUTED.

WAIPUKURAU, Doc. 21

A fatal accident occurred tins morning when John William ’l’yrie, mairied, an engineer, at Waipukurau Public Hospital came into contact with a live wire while working at tho isolation ward.