DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by tiili'.skapii—rr.R press association.] CHILD SUFFOCATED. ROTORUA, April 20. This afternoon Leslie Henry Shepheid, aged eight years, when playing with a companion in a motor garage, under construct ion, descended a pit four feet deep. He was overcome by fumes arising from the .ground. His companion fetched assistance, and the child was taken out of the pit. Three doctors applied artificial respiration, but without avail. FOOD GOES BAD ON ISLAND. WELLINGTON, April 2d. Captain A. Wowetzer. of the fourmasted schooner Forest Home, arrived in tin' stream yesterday morning Iron; Vancouver. He reports having been appealed to for provisions by the inhabitants ol the Island of Aitilukai. in the Cook Group, while passing there on Alarcli 20th. He was able to give them some rice and biscuits from the ship’s store", but the amount was not sufficient to last long. Air Low. a Government official on the Island, came out to the Forest Home in a boat (lying the blue ensign and asked for supplies owing to the food on the island having gone bail. He was grateful to Captain V ewetzer for udiat lie was able to spare. There are only three white people on the Island and the native inhabitants number tif teen hundred. AN ELECTRICAL STORM'. DARGAVII.I.E. April 20. One of the heaviest cha t rival disturbances ever experiential passed over Dargaville yesterday. The morning was beaut ii idly line, hut about two o'clock a severe thuiulor-lighuiing storm accompanied by torrential rain broke over the town. The thunder and lightning was almost continuous until about six o'clock when it slackened oh little. One particularly heavy of lightning struck the chimney ol a house, hut fortunately beyond "’reeking the chimney did no other damage. A number ol people passing the house at the time were temporarily stunned and blinded. The heavy ram did cniisideralde damage to the roadways and fnothpulhs in various parts of the town.