DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL GIRL'S ESCAPADES, By Telf graph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Margaret Jones, a young woman, appeared in the Police Court to-day on a •harge of escaping fro mthe Te Onga Industrial Sohool, she having got away from the escorting matron at Christ- , church railway station and remaining at large for three months before [being captured and brought to Dunedin polite station, where she again escaped and was not located for three weeks, during which period she -was married to a returned soldier, and her arrest yesterday interrupted the honeymoon. The case was remanded for a week, bail being refused.

SYSTEMATIC SLY GROG SELLING. Dunedin; July 24. Jessie Moir, boarding-house keeper, of PahMrston South, was to-da.v fined £SO for sly grog selling, and George Wilson, for delivering liquor, having reasonable grbunds to suspect it was Intended for ( consumption, was fined £2(l. The magis- i trate said systematic sly grog sellifig ' had been indulged in. i 1

EXPLOSION 0N T STEAMER. i Wellington, .Tuly 54, i A startling accident occurred on the i steamer Rreeze iwhile berthed at the i King's , \VhnT i yesterday afternoon. ; About flOOfl cass of' benzine were being taken on board, and the third engineer. W. Ullrich, was makinsr an examination in the propeller shaft tunnel \Vith a naked light, when apparently the benzine fuines ignited. causing a violent explosion. f Ullrich was blown through from the tunnel to the engine-room, where the crew found him lying with his hair singed off and his face and arms severely burned. He was sent to the hospital- " Officials consider it was a marvel the vessel was not blown up. Tt is surmised tlint some cases were leaking, and the wonder is tiiat the flame of the explosion ( did not ignite these. The Breeze left for Dunlin late last night.