DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

BROKEN "VEIN CAUSES DEATH. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) • • '■ DUNEDIN, June 10. Isabella Paterson, aged forty-two, married, with seven children, -and residing tit Kaikorai A r alley, hurst a varicose vein above her left tinkle yesterday morning and died half an hour later. AUCKLAND SOOAV. IN TERRIBLE GALE. AUCKLAND, June 11. | The scow '‘'‘Seagull.,’ s owned by ! Alr A. AY. Bryant, of Auckland, carrying 140 tons of sand, from AVliangapoua to Auckland, was severely buffeted in a westerly gale in Hauraki Gulf on Afonday night, and was almost' disabled. The .vessel put into port early this morning with her top■rnast missing and the jib-boom lashed to flic side, while the remaining shreds of her mainsail dangled aft from the boom. A considerable amount of her cargo was lost oveibonrd, and the damage to the vessel herself Is estimated at £IOO. Tht Master, Captain AA r . J. Lang, said that it was the severest night that he had been through in his thirty years at sea, and tlicc wcic lucky to be alive.' The vessel was at the mercy, of a howling hurricane, which continued for about twenty minutes. Seas broke over them fiom 1 1 every direction. They put up two j' blue lights’.to a trawler for assistlance, but evidently she did not no- ' jticc them. The'task of bringing the ' ship to port was long and arduous. KILLED BY 'MOTOR. NKAV PLYMOUTH, June 11. ' Knocked down by a motor lorry to- ! night, Air John Polletti, a well-known ’ ! farmer, of Bellblock, sustained n fractured skull, and died. The lorry L i was driven ,bv a native named AVat- ! som. L TRAGEDIES AT DANNEAHEKE. 5 DANNEVIRKE, June 11. 1 Two fatalities occurred during the ■ | ilK t ifew days at Frank Armstrong’s ' station Akitio, the first being that of ' a five-vear-old child, Keith A\ illiam 1 Brown, son of ail employee, who was 1 run over by 1 a drav, dying from injuries received. ’ The other was that of Alfred AVil--6 limns, 79, native’ of Australia, single, ' who apparently had a seizure while ■ scrub cutting," and tell ''down a cliff a distance of 200 ft. I - COLLISION AYfTll MOTOR- BUS. ," ' AVELLI NOTON, June 10. An inquest was held at Petone as 1 to the death 'bf AVilliani Henry Davies. ' who was Yhbffked down and killed by i a rai'Rvay biis’ at Pdtone on the even- ' mg of Alay 270 ‘ The’ bus driver stated 1 he had a had view olf the road as tlm windscreen -wa’s'Avet irom rain that had fallef? a short-time -previously, and the street light was glaring on it. He saw deceased when 'the latter was about twelve "feet from' the bus. He immediately applied the brakes, but the bus struck the man. 'A passenger in the bus stated that a saloon car passed the bus just before ’ ’ the moment of impact. ' It appeared that Davies,"’in trying to avoid the car stepped in f ront of the bus. The verdict was the deceased died . from a 'fractured skull received in a collision with’ a motor bus driven by Frederick George Goss. A BROKEN 6 SKULL. MEN CHARGED AYITH ASSAULT. HAMILTON, June 11. The Supreme Court, Sir A. Herdman : pro-:"-nr. '"as occupied to-day in heareimrge’: f assault and df causing bodily harm against Neils Theodore La''sen. atr'd 54, farmer, of To Kuiti, ' and lii’s employee, 'John McKay Smith, aged lie two accused had a dispute wiili John Appleton on Larsen s property. The prosecution attempted to show that Larsen threw a stone and broke Appleton’s skull, nearly killing him. The evidence for the defence was that Appleton was very abusive and aggressive. Smith, retaliating, threw ; Appleton, ‘who, according to ‘ the doifence, then struck his head on a stone, afterwards walking home. The verdict was for the acquittal of both defendants on all counts. DEATH OF FATHER RYAN. AVELLINGTON, June 12. •Obituary;—Father B. J. Ryan, ; Rector of .St. ■ Patrick’s College since : the end .of January, 1928, aged 2.. years. He was horn and educated at Wellington, Meanee Hawke’s Buy). He was ordained a priest in 1915 mid graduated at Victoria College in 1918. He was in his usual health till the beginning of last week. r J he i!uncial takes place on Friday morning. SHIPPING BUFFETED IN PORT. NEAV PLYMOUTH, June 11. A high wind from an unusual .quarter .somewhat discoinforted shipping at New Plymouth to-night. The ;i liner Port Nicholson snapped all but one of her”mooring linos, and ns she had steam lip in only one boiler, her position caused some anxiety,, until she was again secured. The Ruapehu was fairly restful at her moorings, hut the ferry Ngahuhi humped heavily against the wharf, and slightly damaged some of her boat and deck fittings.