TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

US DOMINION ITEMS.

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ONEHUNGA ZOO. AUCKLAND, April 4

.Justice Stringer heard tho appeal against the Onehunga Borough By-law prohibiting the location of John Boyd’s zoo, on the grounds that no reasonable grounds were advanced for. the Borough Council’s opinion that the animals were unlikely to cause a nuisance, and that if the said grounds exist it was unreasonable to prohibit, instead of regulating, the keeping of such animals. The appeal was dismissed. A SUICIDE. BLENHEIM, April 4. Richard Bruning, aged 59, an agricultural labourer, committed suicide at Spring Creek by hanging. He leaves a wife and seven children. He had been drinking. MOTOR FALLS 100 FEET. CHRISTCHURCH, April 4. A party of motorists, returning from O’Kain’s Bay to Christchurch, mot with an accident on the Aknroa, road near the hill top on Saturday night. The car contained six passengers, and when coining up tho Barry’s Bay hill the lights suddenly failed, and the *ar fell over a cliff about 100 feet high. The occupants were thrown in all directions, and more or less injured. The most seriously was George Storey, n member of tbe George Sunshine Coy appearing at tile Opera House. Two of the party managed to reach the hotel at the Hill top. Medical aid was obtained from Akaron, and an ambulance from Christchurch. Storey’s most serious injury is' a broken leg.

PA TEA NOMINA TION S. HAWERA, April 4. The following have been nominal \l for Pa tea by-election : Edward Dixon, Mayor of Hawera (Reform). Lewis Meliorate. of Wanganui (Labor). William Morrison, farmer, of Maxwelltown (Liberal).