DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 72, 30 July 1913, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER

[Per Press Association.] Christchurch, July 29

The adjourned inquest on the body of Ida Una Heath Bradley was resumed j Ids afternoon. The girl died as a re-; suit of injuries received in a taxi-cab accident in Cashel Street, between; Fitzherbert Avenue and Stanmore j Road last Thursday night. The Coroner said that it was abundantly clear that the witness j Kelly could not account for his not i seeing deceased riding in front of him.' The evidence seemed to establish be-! yond doubt that Kelly had failed j to see someone on the tramline in 1 front of him. There was only one conclusion that he could come to, and I that was that Kelly had been grossly | negligent in his driving. The coroner)

•econded a verdict that deceased had )ecn run over by a taxi-cab driven >y Phillip James Kelly in a negligent nanner. Kelly was thereupon arrest'd and charged with manslaughter, met upon the application of the police vas remanded till next Wednesday, tail being allowed, himself in £IOO and me surety of £IOO.

THE GAME OF PAKAPOO. Wellington, July 29. The police paid a surprise visit to tremises in Taranaki and Haining streets, occupied by Chinese, at a late hour to-night. The raid was organised vith the object of uprooting the sup>osed pakapoo dens, and five Chinese md 10 whites were arrested.

Wellington, July 30. The fifteen persons arrested in the •aid on the Chinese premises last light were before the Court to-day. Five Chinese pleaded not guilty and were remanded on bail of £IOO in the ?ase of the two principals and £5 in others. Ton Europeans pleaded guilty to a charge of being found on- the premises and were remanded till Monlay for sentence, bail of £3 being aiiowed in each case.

FAMOUS BRIGHTON CASE

APPEAL DISMISSED. Wellington, July 30,

The Appeal Court dismissed the apical in the case, Brighton v. McClure, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Southland. The Court held that what the applicant was entitled to was the Toehold of the leasehold interest in he surface soil, and that he was not therefore entitled to the fee simple of he land including minerals. This ifßrms the decision of Sir Joshua Wiliams. The question of costs was relerved conditional on leave to appeal o the Privy Council being granted. . , : i-,. • i n■ i P b