DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

FATALITY AT A FIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, July 9. A roadman's whare at Tununui lias been destroyed by lire. Unidentified remains, believed to "be those of tlio roadman, Matthew Regan, were discovered in the debris. RETURNED SOLDIER (FOUND INJURED. Hamilton, July 9. A mysterious affair occurred at Frankton, through which a returned soldier, Thomas Henderson, was seriously injured. The police were communicated with yesterday afternoon, and found the young man lying in Tapp's stables suffering great pain. He was removed to the Waikato Hospital and examined, and wa3 found to have a wound on the left side lower ribs, three inches deep, and which had penetrated the lungs. The man's deposition was taken. He said his name was Thomas Henderson, and his address Selwyn Street, Onehunga. He was a returned soldier, and arrived in the district a few weekß ago from (Palinerston. He had been drinking, and was unaMe to account for his present wound. Examination of hia clothing showed a round hole in the singlet, but no corresponding hole in either vest, shirt, or coat, indicating that the man was not wearing these when the wound' was inflicted. An operation was .performed, but his condition is precarious.

PICTURE CENSORSHIP.. Wellington, July 0. A deputation representing the various churches and religious organisations of the Dominion waited on (Mr. O. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, to-day to urge a more rigid censorship of moving pictures. The deputation asked that instead of one censor a iboard of three s'hould be appointed, one of them a lady. The Minister replied that it was most undesirable that anything transgressing the laws off decency should bo shown, and that he would bring the proposal to establish a board of censors 'before the 1 Cabinet,

SHIPS FOR TRANSPORT OF PRODUCE. Wellington, July 9. Advice 'lias been received 'by the Government that ten steamers will be available for shipping New Zealand produce for September, and that six are already on the berth for July and August. The combined carrying capacity is about a million and a quarter carcases. A SAD SHOOTING FATALITY. Ghristchnrch, June 9. A shocking shooting fatality occurred in the R&hgiora district yesterday afternoon. The victim iwas a boy, twelve years of age, named James Beaton, the second son of Mr. IPeter Beaton, Irving on Gresson's road. This boy, with an elder brother, Wilson Beaton, 17 years of age, left with a shot-gun and a pcarifie, intending to shoot siparrows in some trees near by. The elder boy shot a sparrow with the pea-rifle, and his brother picked up the bird and ran back to the house with it. On his return he had to pass along the back of the fowl-house. The elder lad, who was at the far end of this building taking aim at a bird high up in a tree, heard his (brother coming towards him, and dropped the muzzle of the gun just as the smaller boy slipped out from behind the building. The trigger was accidentally pulled, and the boy was shot through the heart; dropping dead on the spot.