IN THE DOMINION.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 287, 25 July 1908, Page 5

IN THE DOMINION.

o A boy named George Webster, 17 years of age, apprenticed to F. Macmenamin’s racing stable, was knocked down by a tram car when crossing Karangahape road, Auckland, and expired five hours later. Webster was a most promising jockey.

At a meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commence it was decided to recommend that Empire Day and Prince of Wales Birthday holidays be observed on May 24th as one holiday, and that Dominion Day and Labour Day, as they fall close together,! be likewise combined.

Adamson, Assistant Superintendent for. Marine, after adjusting the compasses of the new steamer Mahurangi, at Auckland, was stepping ashore, when he slipped and fell between two steamers. He suffered severe injuries to his head and face. He was promptly rescued by the crews of the two steamers.

Charles VincentiMoore, charged at the Gisborne Court with attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a knife, expressed regret, and said he was under the influence of liquor. He was out of employment, which distressed him. The Magistrate called upon the accused to find sureties for his good behaviour.

Three boys were charged at the Dunedin Juvenile Court with placing a log on the railway line, with throwing stones at a train as it passed, and with stealing lollies and broom handles fiom a grocer’s store. The driver of the train said the engine ran into the log, but the cow-catcher threw it on one side. The Magistrate committed the boys to the Burnham Industrial School. Another boy was charged with shifting the railway points at Mosgiel, as a result of which an engine left the rails, and it took four hours and a half to get it back. The boy was admonished and discharged. It was apparently the outcome of a boyish impulse, as the lad had a good record.

A labouring man named John William Walsh, aged about 38, committed suicide in Wellington harbour by jumping off the outer tee of the Queen’s wharf. The act was done deliberately, the man stripping off all his leaving them on the wharf under a couple of bricks. He was seen to jump in by a stevedore who was working at the fore hatch of the steamer Victoria. The body was soon recovered, but life was extinct. While the police were applying artificial respiration, the man’s wife arrived, having discovered a note from her husband in the bedroom saying that his clothes would be found on the wharf.