DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A STABBING AFFRAY

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, June 2,

Yesterday afternoon a stabbing affray occurred at Chelsea, when an Arab fireman on the steamer Tlyington Court (which arrived in the morning from. Cuba with sugar), received three knife wounds in the face and neck.

This morning at the Police Court Yalien Alimkl, 28, another Arab fireman, was remanded till the 7th on a charge of causing actual bodily harm. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, June 2. William Patrick Lennox was found dead in the scullery of his home at Takaputui yesterday. A detective and a constable who went to interview him found the blinds.drawn and doors locked. They broke in and found him dead, with his head in a gas oven. On a table nearby was a pencil and envelope with the words “Not guilty” written on it, An inquest wa3 opened and adjourned. It was (Stated- deceased was a labourer. His wife lias been away since January. - CHILD’S DEATH. OaMARU, June 2. A five months old child, Desmond Keith Black, was found dead in his cot yesterday morning by his parents, who live in Arun street. The child was seen by the mother at 2.30 a.m. when all was right. A doctor was caled in at 7.30 and pronounced life extinct, death being due, probably, to suffocation.

WOMAN CHARGED

DUNEDIN, May 31

A story that a worried woman attempted to commit suicide suicide by ’.throwing herself under a train at Waltham, was told at the Court. According to the witness, had the not tripped over a wire and fallen into a faint eight feet from the engine, she would certainly have been killed. Muriel Martha Gertrude Thomas, over 34 years of age, was charged with attempting to commit suicide, and further with being found helplessly drunk. She pleaded not guilty to the first charge, and guilty to the second. The Magistrate convicted accused for drunkenness, dismissing the other charge, saying there was a doubt.

COLLARBONE BROKEN. OTAKI, June 2. : Tama Parata, a- representative player, had his collarbone broken in the Mnnakau-Leviu match on Saturday. THREE MONTHS GAOL. NAPIER, June 2, Bernard Ertele, aged 62, was sent to gaol for three months by the Magistrate for assaulting a little girl in a picture theatre on Saturday.

INQUEST. ' WHANGAREI, June 2. An inquest on McLeod’s Flat level crossing tragedy on the evening of April sth, when a train and bus collided resulting in six deaths of bus passengers, opened to-dav. Noel Herbert Wilkinson, driver of the bus was charged with negligently driving the bus, therefore causing six deaths. Evidence of the inquest and the case against Wilkinson is being taken simultaneously. n.tmi Menzies Assistant Engineer of Public Works stated that standing on the crossing facing Whangarei, a train is visible 45 chains. A bus driver coming from Hikurangi at a point chains from tbe crossing had a vision of 41 chains. He visited the locality at night time and through a wet wind screen could see an approaching train without- difficulty. Speaking as a motorist he did not consider the crossing to be dangerous. STOCK CUT WITH RAZOR. AUCKLAND, May 31. A suburban draper,' about eight o’clock on Friday night noticed an unusually large crowd outside his shop. Presently, someone asked Mm why he was displaying worthless articles. He then discovered that a quantity of overcoats, trousers, • pyjamas, etc., had 'been slashed to ribbons with a razor. The damage was about £lO, There is no clue to the perpetrator, who evidently worked at the busiest time of the evening. CHECK ON BOARDS. CHRISTCHURCH, May. 31. The Public Health Department is busy going through tbe Hospital Board’s estimates in view of the. Dominion’s economic position. Every effort is being made to check extravagant expenditure but Hon. Mr Stallworthy (Minister of Public Health) stated to-day that there is no suggestion of any 'decrease in the efficiency of the hospital, system nor was it proposed to throw any additional buiden on the local ratepayers; A close scrutiny of the Hospital Board’s estimates of capital expenditure this year was operating in absolutely an opposite direction. Other proposals would be made to relieve the burden of the local ratepayers.