DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

CHILD’S DEATH. (By Telegraph —Ver Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 13. Advice has been received from Cromwell that au infant son of G. V . Crabbo of Bannockburn, was found drowned in a large bucket of water, underneath a table- jn Crabbo’s residence, on Saturday. FOUND SHOT. CHRISTCHURCH, April 12. Arthur Vernon Rnscoc Morten, aged 53, a prominent Christchurch citizen, wtu s found by his wife at 7.30 °n Saturday morning dead in lied at Ids residence at Mount Pleasant, with a revolver wound in Ids chest. Mmic was a revolver in the bed. rle had been in ill health for a considerable time. Two years ago he went abroad, but returned to Christchurch having derived very little benefit from Ids trip. Ho was a son of the Into Mi R. M. Morten. At the inquest, Coroner Young S.M-, found that death was due to a bullet Wound, inflicted by Mortem himself, while in a depressed state of mind, due to ill health. Airs Morten gave evidence that her husband had been greatly depressed, but had never threatened or mentioned suicide. Dr. Richard Anderson said he had attended Morten in the last ten years. He had a dilated fatty heart. Ho was greatly depressed about his health. CHEMICAL EXPLOSION. AUCKLAND. April 10. Members of the staff of R. M r . Gallangher Ltd., in Victoria Street, were lucky to escape injury from flying glass caused by the explosion of sixty bottles of peroxide of hydrogen yesterday. Nobody was facing the shelf where the bottles were stored, but glass was scattered all over the office. A prominent chemist says that a bright light would cause the 07,0110 gas to decompose, and it would set up such a pressure that either the stopper would he blown off tile bottle or the bottles would hurst. DAIRY DIVISION RETURNS. WELLINGTON, April 13. The Agricultural Department’s Dairy Division grading figures for the eight months ended March 1931. show an increase for butter .70 ]>or cent, at 84.0 b I (83,409) and for cheese an increase ol 6.83 per cent at 76.233 tons (71.0211 as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding season shown in brackets. Reduced to terms of butterfat the equivalent, grading of dairy produce for eight months shows an increase of 2.97 per cent over last season’s gradings. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. CAR HIT BY ENGINE. WOODY ILLF, April 13. A miraculous escape from death occurred at the railway crossing between Woodvillc and M’anawatu Gorge on Saturday evening when a Chrysler sedan motor-car, driven by A. J. Bierre. malinger the Fletcher Construction Coy., of Wellington, who was returning from Hastings with a companion named Noel Burnett, was caught by a railway engine from Palmerston North. The car was carried some distance along the track and was badly wrecked. Bierre sustained injuries lo the bend, which necessitated seven stitches being inserted, and Burnett also suffered wounds on the head and shock. A'fcr being medically treated both injured men were taken in a private e;ir to Palmerston North. OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, April 13. Obituary.—Mr J. P. Firth. C.M.G., at 1 1 is residence Highland Park. He was headmaster of Wellington College from 1892 to bis retirement at the end of 1920. GAMING ACT. WANGANUI. April 13. Bernard Francis Corrogan was lined £SO, on a charge of a breach of the Gaming Act at the court to-day. For a similar oll'enec, Arthur .James Caim was fined CIO. It- was the latter’s first offence.