DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A PAINTER’S DEATH

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

DARGA.VILLE, Aug. 14

Cyril E. Salmon, a painter by trade, aged 38 and single, of Donnelly’s Crossing, had breakfast yesterday with his brother, a recent arrival from Australia. Ho went to work in a shed nearby and later j returned to tell liis brother lie had taiven spirits of salts by mistake. He was placed in a car and rushed to the Te Kopuru Hospital, 35 miles away, but expired on the.way. An inquest will be held to-day.

COMMUTED FOR SENTENCE

WELLINGTON, Aug. 14

Remarking that the thefts were mean and that accused t had not thought of his good name nor of the possible effect of his wrong-doing, which might easily cast suspicion on others, Mr Barton S.M. refused the suppression of the name l of Henry Eccles Pearce, for thefts, mainly from the Windsor Hotel, totalling £8 15s 6d, and committed him for sentence.

May Keys, who received linen and other hotel articles from Pearce, knowing them to be stolen, was allowed two years’ probation.

THEFT CHARGES

WELLINGTON, August 14,

A man who has been responsible for a number of burglaries in and around Wellington was brought to book in the person of Court Prank Clark, aliases, Edward Gilford, a. labourer, who arrived in the Dominion early in JuL\ F was hard up and had stolen goods from eleven burglaries of a total ( value o'F £251 13s, He was committed for sentence.

Charles Sender, charged with receiving from Clark,- pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.

FOUND DEAD

WAIMATE, August 14,

John Emmerson, a billiard marker, was found dead in . a room smelling of gas. It is understood he lefft a lettmstating the intention to take his life. Emmerson distinguished himself in the war. He was mentioned in despatches for. bravery' at Messines, where he lost an arm.

Considerable space is devoted to tinincident in General Young’s book “New Zealanders at the Front.”