DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH — vr.n PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE PAINTTNG TRADE. WELLINGTON. April 3. At Auckland the N.Z. Painters’ and Decorators’ Conference adopted a remit establishing one union for the painting trade of New Zealand. The Conference instructed the Executive to continue negotiations for file linking ii]) of all the Federations in the Dominion. and is now considering the question of applying for a Dominion Award. LAUNCH MISSING. M'.UROA. April 3. Some anxiety is leit locally legatding the whereabouts of a small steam i launch containing a crew oi three, and | equipped for lishing. which leit Wellington a fortnight ago for Vaikokopn. and lia.-, not been heard ol -itce, Ihe launch intended to call at ( nstlepoiin pii route, and wire Irieiuls. Ii not sheltering somewhere along the coast, j or Directing engine repairs, it i- iearod that the boat has been driven out to sea by strong we-terly winds. BE \ It I FT. E DANGER. GISBORNE, April 2. \v*.i 1 ■ playing with a young hoy at her home at Mottihura. a three year old girl, named Patricia Grantham. wrs shot by the lad with a pea ritle. Ihe hov did not know it was loaded. He pointed it at the gel and pulled the trigger, the bullet penetrating her ehe-t. The girl was (nought to town t,y i lain and was admitted to the lio- • | Hal. (URL DROWNED. CUKISTt IIITB 11. April 3. j Margaret .Mary Ritchie, aged 2" years, while out gathering du. k-' eggs, along tin'' hanks ol a creek on her father’s larm al Soul hbriige, tell into the >t ream and was drew lied. ACCIDENTAL POiSONTNC. ClllllSTt 1 11T1 ( 11. April 3. j Hubert Price, an orchardist. aged .'3. j died to-day as tlie result id accident- j ly drinking poison. He had been ex-j pieriiiienting with arsenate oi lead as a ||y killer and "ii Friday mixed some in a cup. Hilling; tin* night he gnl ii]) to get a drink oi milk, ami m the dark he drank the mixtuix in the ■•up. lie hecamo unwell, hut, a- he had lorgotlen mixing the poi-on he could inn help the doctor to diagnose his case. The explanation ol the illness rulin' on .'siimlay, hut he gradually sank anil died this alternoon. THIRD BABY FOUND. WELLINGTON. April 3. Another sensational development in the New lands ease, ill eonneel inn with ! which Daniel Coop !' and his wile, j Martha Cooper, arc charged with murder, occurred to-day. I'-e -cvi nil days a party of policemen has been suoiching and digging the ground in the vicinity of the house where the Coopers and their female boarders lived ! To-day the party came acrii-s I lie body of another child, making the lo- j tal number of .bodies found three. So far as is known at present, lour j chihlicn are missing It i- staled | that the three already loiiud are of j similar sex to those v.lm disappeared.! and said by the prisoners to have been | adopted by resident- o! I’aliner-loli I North and other district-. Doth prisoners have steautn-tly declined to give the addresses of those who took the children awnv.

BURGLARIES. WELLINGTON. April 3. The premises of the We t port Cun Comp.'uiv were bui'glariiui-ly cnterc; some time between Thursday night am thi- morning. The si mug room doo wa- Mown opi'ii. and two so- in sale tin’ room were dynamiil" l E l.uel: ily. only abolll 27 was in the -aleThis was stolen. ’lTiis is- the scrum instance of safes having been blow' open during the past lew days. I is ilimiglit that the explo-ion u-ed i some, gelignite iceently stolen from th City (ouneil’s magazine mii.i.er fails under car. WAN'D A NIL April 3. Tlie Wang.iaui police to-night re reived advice that a fatal accident oetiried til Taihapc Railway State I this evening. .John Ccllis. s-riwmißiw of Tanmanmui. while eiidoavoiiring t ; hoard the inriii trunk express, fell uu der a carriage, and wa- cii; to pie. es lie was a married man. with a famib and was well know n at .Miittgaweka and forinerlv lived at Levin.