DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

DEATH FROM INJURIES

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

HAMILTON, May 14

Ronald Walter Scott, aged 21 years, who sustained a fractured skull as a result of a fall from a motor cycle in Hamilton, op Monday afternoon died in the hospital late last night.

PARNELL vFINAL FIGURES

AUCKLAND, May 14. The Parnell Bye-election final figures are : W. P. Endean .4850 AY. A. McDonald 3230 T. Blood worth 2122 Informal 32 Only 73 per cent, of the enrolled voters voted.

MARRIED BY PROXY

AUCKLAND, May 14

A young Salvationist woman, who arrived by the ulimaroa yesterday had never seen her husband, having been married by proxy. The marriage was arranged by her brother, who met her husband In New Zealand.

ESCAPEES' CAPTURED. NAPIER, May 14.

Two Maori fugitives from Te Awamutu, \Villiam Broughton aged 18, and George Thomas George McDonald Bryant aged 19, were - captured this morning in a swamp at, Brockfields alter a continuous watch since yesterday morning. The escapees were involved in a motor smash at Devil’s Elbow on Sunday.., ' , -K.r'.'r", , ’

CUT HIS THROAT

NAPIER, May 14

George Farmery, aged 36, of Hastings, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, in Napier Hospit-

PROBATION GRANTED. PALMERSTON N., May 14

At the Supreme Court, the Chief Jus-j-ijoe Mgpn, a Maori,, aged 22,. probation for, ( . tjiree , years for .stealing; a letter containing six cheques valued at, £lol.The conditions, ihcjudq.the making ,of:, restitution. at the rate, of £4; 6s. 8d monthly, paying . a guinea . expenses pud .to abstain from liqour, andJteep out-,of; billiard saloons.

I' .l’v SENSATIONAL . FIRE., CVIBISTpHU.RCH,; Nlay. 14. . A/ffiiie,. attended by sensational. circumstances, occurred at, the corner of Glycje ;Road. : Fendalton, early, this morning. Thieves raided a ‘block of four shops by first smashing in the front doors and then set fire to one. a tobacconists shop tenanted by Fred Whiteman. This was gutted and the others were damaged by smoke and \yatep, .the brigade.;,effecting »., sayo S.ubsequei.jtly jthe ,f;:4ii,oe' found; an) abandoned ■ djU’,. in Linwood with, a stopk of; stolen tobacco, etc., therein. Later in the night thieves, believed to., be the same, entered a shop on Stanmoije Road, Linwood, and stole £l4 sterling fyom a till. They were disturbed : and, decamped leaving behind on the road, a motor car stolen ■yesterday *cyeqing. from Cambridge