DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1921, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

BREACH OF GAMING LAW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterton, May 28. Thomas Ludwig Crass was lined £5O at the S.M. Court this afternoon on a charge of having kept his premises Ris a common gaming house. SHOOTING AFFRAY AT WHARF, I . Timaru, May 28. There was a shooting affray at the wharf last night. William Jones, a steward of the steamer Trevosa, fired two shots at John Stapleton, a seaman, wounding him in the thumb. The revolver misfired when attempting a third shot. The incident was the sequel to a quarrel at Newcastle. Jones was charged this morning with inflicting grievous bodily harm to St; pieton, and was remanded till Wednesday. SOLICITOR’S ALLEGED FORGERY. Gisborne, May 28. Tn the Magistrate’s Court, John Harold Kane, solicitor, was committed for trial on a charge that he did forge a document, to wit, a receipt from Hineham to Kane and Dunlop, dated December 3, 1919, by altering the amount from £lOO to £2OO. The defence was that the alteration of the receipt was made before the signing of the document and that what the receipt represented was fully explained to Hineham. EAST COAST RAILWAY. Napier, May 28. Before leaving Napier this morning for Wellington, the Hon. J. G. Coates made a statement in connection with East Coast railway matters. The Minister said he was determined to go on with the Napier end of the line as quickly as possible. All single men that were out of work would be sent up the line to work on the railway and roads, so as to get ready for the transport of machinery to Waikaremoana next summer.

The Minister is very satisfied, after traversing a good portion of the railway on foot and going ahead of the road on horseback, with the way the railway is progressing. RAILWAY OFFICERS’ CONFERENCE. Dunedin, May 28. The sitting of the Railway Officers’ institute, which lasted ten days, has concluded. Under the recently adopted re-organis-ation scheme a new executive was last night elected for the ensuing year. 'The office-bearers are:—Presidjyjt, R. Robertson (Wellington); vice-presidents, C. R. Bell (Auckland), R. S. Skinner (Dunedin); committee. A. S. Henderson. E. W. Bains, A. E. Boys, F. E. Hunt, A. N. Longton, M. J. Ford and J. T. Fitzgerald.

Presentations were made to Mr. Denchy, retiring president, and Mr. W. Easey, retiring vice-president, from the members’ conference.