TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS. .^LEGHAI’H —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] THE FERRY SERVICE. DUNEDIN, April 7. The Head Office of the Union Company know nothing of the rumour about tlie removal of both the Wahino and the Maori during the winter, but state that it may be necessary in the dead of winter, to substitute a smaller vessel for one of the present steamers. EGG PULI’ IMPORTS. WELLINGTON, April (>. The Board of Trade states that the decision arrived at by the recent conference at Christchurch regarding restricting the importation of Asiatic egg-pulp has been approved by tlie Gov - ernment and that a note prohibiting Asiatic egg pulp, except by permission of tlie Minister of Customs, on tlie recommendation of the Board of Trade, would he gazetted shortly. The allocation between the usual importers of the quantity of egg pulp to he brought into the Dominion will he made by the Board of Trade on the basis ot the business done during 1919.

PROFITEERING CHARGE. AUCKLAND, AP'd -7. Evidence ill “The Boot Case,” as it lias come to he known during the weeks it lias been before the public, was eoneluded this morning before .Air (Mitten S.M., and counsel addressed the Court this afternoon. The 'defendant is Ernest E. Leaning, of Queen Street, who is charged on the prosecution of the Board ol Trade, with having sold a pair of surgical boots at a price which was unreasonably high namely £4 19s 6d. The Magistrate reserved his decision. A FATAL FALL. AUCKLAND. April 7. The non appearance at his home last night of A. E. I'cnton. one ot the painters employed on the Admiral Codrington. which is at present in C alliope dock’, caused anxiety to his wife. A search of tho vessel was made this morning, when the men returned to work, ail'd the body of the unfortunate man was Imiml lying in one oj the holds.

It is thought that, in walking across the deck, after knocking off work last, evening, lie must have tripped and lalleu down the hold, meeting death instantly. as iio outcry was apparently heard. Deceased, who was 34 years of age, was n-oyarried man with two eliihl-

THE 1.41 ARIRBOX CASI

BLENHEIM, April 5

The reserved judgment of Mr Justice i loskitig in the case of Newman Brothers v. J. J. Cony (Mayor of Blenheim). an action to recover the possession of the well-known racehorse Tmariblion. finds for the defendant with costs.

The plaintiffs are elderly men who carry on farming operations near Blenheim, and have had the strain of Tmarilibon, who is a descendant of Blue Ribbon in their possession for over thirty years .Air Oorry has had I’liarihlion ever since 1906 and the substantial question which the judge had to decide was whether the defendant ‘Xercised an option to purchase the mare within twelve months of the occasion on which tie obtained Ironi the plaintiffs llie right of racing her. Having regal’d to the body of corroboration in support, of the defendant’s assertion that lie bought the horse, his Honour held tlie assertion to lie proved. In the course of his lengthy judgment his Honour referred to the laid that the defendant is a member .of the Marlborough Jockey Club, and of the New Zealand Racing (’(inference and kidded; —“A further circumstance and

in my opinion a very strong one. is lent the defendant. was was a racing official and familiar with the penalties lie "•'* under if lie ran another’s horse in his own name without the joint interest bring registered, should nevertheless have

be'om to race her and continued in do

so for II period of four years without the necessary registration. It seems to me ineedihie that the defendant should have done this unless he v.as 1 1 1 <’ ownei. It seems equally incredible that the plaint id’s with, as they now say. a lull consciousness after tho first year that there would he trouble shyiild have allowed this t" go one for a like period if the ho: se was theirs.”

NEW board of HEALTH. •WELLINGTON. April ■'

A new Board of Health is being ;cnst it it tod, and Airs.l. F. Luke, ALyo.c-s of Wellington, lias been appointed to it. The Hon. (’. d. Farr thinks tin- is (he first lime a woman has held a position oil a State Board in New Zetland. The Board will comprise the DirectorGeneral of Health, and a medical practitioner. to be appointed on the recommendation of tin' Minister. It is understood that Surgeon-General M<‘Ctovin will he the medical practitioner

member of the Medical Board eonsliteted under the Medical Fraetitiom i s Act, on tlie recommendation of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. Dr Elliott’s mime is mentioned as the medical tinner member of the F] • ’ ' : cine at the Otago University. • will he five lay members of the Board: Air T. J. Ala ft in. solicitor, "s-n:-j’„g the New Zealand AlenieieU 'jneiation ; a second, representing the Zealand Counties W’-ioctHf” ‘ ’’ • -l ! • FVtgIINoH. CIV" GHD’DM . • ’ ri Air Win. Fraser, chairman of th" naki Hospital MV :”U It TvtowYt; Af.u.r.