VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

(by TELEGRAM—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] RAILWAY ACCIDENT. GORE, Feb 12. When a goods train from Invercargill was pulling into Mataura yesterday an M. waggon left the rails and caused a Iy and three L waggons to do likewise. Three trucks piled up on the station platform and two others took the opposite side and damaged three sheep waggons on a loop. Gangs from Gore, Edendale and a breakdwn train from Invercargill cleared the debris s a.irtly and no disorganisation of traffic resulted.

GHA YE DEVELOPMENTS. GENERAL STOPPAGE EXPECTED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 11 The position of affairs on the Wellington waterfront is causing grave concern. There is said to be direct

evidence of “go slow” tactics, and pinpricking generally by watersiders. It is understood that the employers have notified the Union that if normal conditions do not prevail within 48 hours they will take such action as they think fit. A general stoppage is feared on Tuesday, and there should be important developments. ■ MOTOR FATALITY AT DUNEDIN. WOOLSTON RESIDENT KILLED.' DUNEDIN, Feb. 11. j An elderly man, .Marshall Hume Browne, a visitor from Christchurch, was knocked clown by a motor car at the foot of Pitt street yesterday after- j noon. He was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition and with

his head badly cut. He remained in a low condition throughout the night, and died at 8 a.m. to-day. The deceased was married, aged 71 years, and resided at 47 Wilber Street, Woolston. The ear was driven by Mr Ward, who has the reputation of being a careful and experienced driver. An inquest was opened at the hospital -to-day for the purpose of identification, and then adjourned until a later date. The late Mr Browne was a son of an old journalist, known in the early clays of New Zealand as Mr “Snider” Browne, and served his time to the printing trade on the West Coast, going to Canterbury in the early seventies, lie- was one of the proprietors of the “Rangiora Standard.”

WATERS F DEWS' CONTENTIONS. AUCKLAND, February 12. With respect to the. demand from Wellington that the “Go-slow” and “no overtime” policy must cease, local watersiders contended they were* acting within their rights. They attended meeting on Sunday to )- ar the views of Mr Glover. President < f the Transport Workers' Federation. AUCKLAND WATERSIDERS. AUCKLAND. Feb, 13. The Watersoclers’ Union met to-day and there was an attendance of 1356 men. Mr L. Glover, of Wellington, member of the Federation Executive, addressed the meeting. Tice officials subsequently st- - ted that there was no Information, for. publication. Tt is learned unofficially that the men will offer for work in the morning. Asked ns regards overtime, the members replied: “That won’t he known until three o'clock to-morrow, when the final call for men is made.” POSITION AT WANGANUI. WANGANUI. February 13. The watersiders’ tactics arc causing irritation here, though the Union o r ficials deny that any concerted action is being taken.

SUPREMK COURT. AUCKLAND, February 13. At the supreme Court a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment was passed on Tims. Davis, who pleaded guilty to being concerned in the theft of electrical’goods from two warehouses and on Arthur Ernest Coham, who was found guilty of similar offences arising out of the same burglaries. “Those firms deserve to lose money because of the careless way in. which they seem to manage their business ’

an id th c Judge. Dealing with John Andrew Riddell (22), who obtained £237 from local stock (inns by false pretences, his Honour added that such business methods ■offered an incentive to crime The accused was placed on there years' prohrtion and ordered to pay back, by instalments half the amount lost bv the two finds concerned. Another case in which a youth had had association with lads in racing stables, as the result of which his moral fibre was said to have been afflicted, was that of T/eonard 0- Cnrmont, aged If), who admitted forging and uttering a c hei|ue at Hamilton. His Honour placing accused on probation ami prohibiting him from racecourses and billiard saloons, said it was another instance of gross carelessness on the part of people dealing with cheques. Accused had simply walked into a storekeeper’s premises and cashed a cheque on which he had written a customer’s nhme. How people kept out of the bankruptcy court when they conducted business in that way he could not understand. William Kd wards, for breaking and entering a dwelling at Dargaville, and theft, got three months’ imprisonment. Probation was ordered in a number of cases involving various offences. j For the first time in Auckland the suppression of the names of two accused was ordered at the Supreme Court by Justice Stringer. A man and a woman were charged with having made a false statement in registering one of their four children. On Counsel applying for suppression, the Judge said there had been it. breach of the law, but the police had no discretionary )X>wers, so it had been left to him to look at the surrounding circumstances. It was as venial an offence as could possibly be committed. He fitted the man 40/- and costs. There was no fine imposed on the woman. *