DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

SHOOTING TRAGEDY. !

(By Telegraph—Press Association) ,

WAJPUKURAU Oct. 20. * V ■ 1 . * • 1 V A shbqting tragedy ' occurred at Waipukura.u late last evening. A married man,; W. White, a dairy farmer, lost his life- near. lindsav settlement. In with his partner R. Lansdowne, decoded was traversing a marshy paddock, Avlien a hare started 'up iri; the rushes deceased giving chase. When about'' twenty vanijs from Lansdowne there Avas 1 a report aria- White threw up his arms and falling probably having tripped. The full charge of the shotgun entered his left side under the armpit and death was apparently instantaneous., APPEAL COURT. ; •• '•> Oetf 20.' Argument in the case -of theyGrowii versus Storey, is continuing in the Appeal Court to-day. Mr Fair proceeded to discuss the question of causation, and submitted ihat if deaths •? wave 1 the - proximate result -of Storey’s negligence, Storey was responsible at. low; Tile question . for decision-of the. ,Court was io wbat degree,’!:Storcy’S'-ynegligence was the pause 'of . the deaths. HP submitted - that the cvidence. as to the condition of the steering gear of. Cook’s car was not admirable. If that evidence! ' tended .'"to. 'fcfKwtwie chain of oatwiVtion 'hrokerij ’ili.wag admirable, but he contended' it. ecuid not show tha* the chain q£ causation was broken op that Storey’s i negligence Avas exhaust ed by the time that deaths ensued, p' STODM. IN CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct, 20. f A fierce south-west storm evening' caused considerable damage in the city. / Tavo sheets of iron were blown off a.two storey house in Bealey smashing telephone lines. TheoccmS pants had a hard talk to coA’er the hole with a tarpaulin, in the raging gale. P Elsewhere skylights were broken and al chimney dislodged. _ v ... ~:j Two yachts capsized |tiharbour and the occupants Had to b<s! rescued by other vessels. . — , \yjj£ BIGAMY CHARGE. j| AUCKLAND. October 20. § Joseph James Groonette (85),; a dresser and seaman, Avas committed foffi trial on a bigamy charge. .In his oAvp.statement to the police, Grbonotte stat«£ ed he had gone through two more forms;; of marriage while his legal wife was still);; alive. He. pleaded hot guilty my legal wife is dead.” Groonotte was charged that on Nov-.i ember 24,-1913 at Johannesburg, he duTfT ninr-Pr, Tr n mnv Thickborne and while so .; married did on February 9, 1927 at Palmerston North marry Eva Hill,, '' thereby committing bigamy.., v ’| ' In a statement to the police,-fSroonot.vl te stated that after liisr wife returned to • South Africa from Wellington in 1924 he went through a form of • marriage I there on July 23, .1924 • (before his marriage to Hid) with Lily May Woodhouse . of Knrori. • ,■ .