DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 18 February 1913, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A DISORDERED MIND. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, February 18. Wm. Francis Debazier, aged 52, a carpenter, committed suicide to-day. Last week ho was convicted of false pretences, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, A SLY-GROGGERY. Gisborne, February 18. Patrick O’Connell was fined £SO or, in default, one month’s imprisonment for sly grog-selling. Two constables who watched at night saw numerous visitors with accused in a tent near the railway works at Matawai, and the shadows on the tent revealed where they obtained bottles, the drawing of corks and the drinking. Underneath dog kennels and wood heaps they found holes in the ground containing twenty bottles of whisky, whilst many empty beer bottles and another hundred whisky bottles strewn about were found. The Magistrate ordered the liquor to be confiscated and sold, the proceeds to be paid into the public account. FIREMAN’S PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Gisborne, February IS. A fireman on the Matatua named Thomas John Owens had the fingers of both hands mutilated this morning through being caught by a wire rope running through a block.