News Brevities

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 12

News Brevities

Shoplifter Fined.—A labourer of Kaihere, Edward Charles Hillsen, was caught while stealing at Thames on Friday evening by a shop assistant. He was fined £2 in the Police Court. Cars Collide.—Early yesterday afternoon two cars collided at Avondale, at the intersection of Rosebank Road aj*3 Great North Road. One car, owned by a motor firm in Hamilton, was damaged, but the othfr was able to proceed to the <JLty. No one was hurt. Fires at Dunedin.—Seven outbreaks of fire occurred at Dunedin during the week-end. Only one was of a serious nature. This was a four-roomed house which had been unoccupied for a fortnight, and which was burned' to the ground. The cause is not known. Cow Charges Children.—Two young children of Mr. and Mrs. A. Xedham* of Palmerston North, were attacked by a Jersey cow belonging to a neighbour when they were crossing a paddock. One child was knocked down but not hurt. Mr. Nedham shot the beast just as it charged the other child. Telegraph Connection Wanted. —Thfl Matamata Chamber of Commerce ha asked the Post and Telegraph Department to complete the 12-mile g&P . the telegraph line to Tauranga. considered that tradespeople would n the service convenient in ordering c j rus fruits and other perishable gooa