DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

FRAUDULENT CHINAMAN

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, September 26,

A young married Chinese, Low Mee AVali 20, was sent to goal for a month for incurring four debts totalling £ll. 13s by fraud. He represented to grocers that he possessed a. market garden and truck. Althopgh another Chinese offered to make restitution, and give accused a job Magistrate Hunt took, a serious view of the frauds. BOY ELECTROCUTED. AVELL.I.NGTON, September 27. A boy of fourteen, Thomas David AllansQU, was electrocuted at Lower Hutt tliis morning. Apparently it occurred on a wire stretched between two poles from near the top of one and tied to the other a few feet from the ground. The hoy was swinging on this, it is surmised, and caused it to connect with live wires. Nothing, however, is known definitely. The wire is on railway property. MAN’S DEATH. PALMERSTON N., Sept. 29. Following his ’ admission to the Palmerston- North Hospital on Wednesday'. evening,' suffering severe wounds in the throat'. Norman Wheeler, of Feikling, stiecuinibed at the institution at five o’clock yesterday. AA r hen admitted tiie condition oi Wheeler '-was so serious that lie was not expected to recover. He is survived.bv a 1 widow and no family. AT COLERIDGE. SOME RAIN FALLS.

CHRISTCHURCH, 'Sept. 29.

Four hours rain fell at Coleridge yesterday, and the level of the lake was maintained during tlie week end, Economy measures still continue and Christchurch is without street lights at night. MOTOR OAR FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 29. Tliomas Baden Howley, 30, a labourer, who Was knocked down by a m,o,t.qr car in Ferry Road on Friday evening, • died in the hospital yesterday. / '/■ - 1 u ■ ACOIDENTALLLY SHOT. " -..V; CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 29. AJ/th ur Donovan;' aged " seiven ' yea rs, Aviis"accidentally shot in the face at Hanmer yesterday,, while the family were rabbit shooting. He was hospital led in a critical condition. A. E. OOOK'E HURT. WELLINGTON, September 29. . Hurt twice in the AVcl 1 ington-Tara-nakt match, A. E. Cooke eventually had to leave the field suffering from a / slight . concussion. He was hurt ea,rl,v in the second spell,- but though two ambulance men bearing a stretch-er-came- to earrv him off and a reserve back, Pollock, also came on the field, he still carried on. ... -A r - little- later, he .received another bad knock on the /head, and this tinie_ had to be ; / ass i steel’ off by. tlie men Whose help he -had refused earl-

ier. ; . ’ Cooke was taken, to the hospital, hut was discharged the same nighty