DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TF.LF.GRArn —rr.R tress association.] LOAN PROPOSAL LOST. WANGANUI, May 2. The Council's hundred thousand pound loan for the water extension proposal which the preliminary count on the night of the municipal election was declared carried by 20 votes, turns out, on the official recount, to have been lost by 57 votes. A large number of votes tentatively rejected as informal, were accepted on the official scrutiny as valid.

STOKEHOLD CREW FIXED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. At Lyttelton, twenty-one members of the stokehold crew of the Dorset were each fined £5 and costs for combining to delay tile departure of the vessel. The men went ashore and some became intoxicated and refused to resume duty or take the steamer to an anchorage. They pleaded that the stokehold complement was short. MAN DROWNED. DUNEDIN, May 3. Yesterday at Port Chalmers, William Porter was seen standing on the halftide bank at Sawyer's Bank Inlet. As he wi's well out towards the navigable channel of the harbour his presence at such a. place attracted attention, and when, without taking off' his wearing apparel he waded into the deeper water and commenced to swim, two young men launched a b at and pulled towards him. When they reached tile place lie had disappeared. It is said that lie has been depressed since the recent death of his eldest son. The body has not been fol'llll.

HON. I). H. GUTHRIE. WELLINGTON. Airy 2. The lion. 1). 11. Gulhiie. Minister of Lands and Railways, who is now in a private hospital in Wellington, is to have a cr.mnh ic rest from i llicial duties fir at least two months. Air Guthrie's health is showing a considerable improvement. The Prime .Minister stated to-day that in the meantime, he would assume the duties of Minister cf Railways, nml that tlm.se of Minister of bands, would go to Sir Francis Bell. .MANSLAUGHTER ( MARGE. WEI. LING Ton, May 2. Tile preliminary hearing of the charge of manslaughter against Thomas Francis Bailey, as the result if the death at Karnri ul a hay, 13 years, Herbert Reginald John-ton. through being !.nocked down by a motor ear driven by the accused, occupied the Court to-mly. Bailey pleaded not guilty and Wtis comiiiiitcd in the .Supreme Coni! for trial, on had of £l3O. VICTIM IDENTIFIED. ( HRISTCMII'Rf 11. May 2. The man killed Iv the train in the Lyudmil Tunnel i i>i- morning has delinilelv been identified as George Harley Par.-on,-,, account.ml for the linn ni F. C'ros-. and Sons, wine and spirit merchants. St. Asaph Street. Parsons was a married man. (id years old. with one daughter. He had been with Cke-s and Sons for HI years, lie lived in .Melbourne for .some years, and vn« at one time an Aidermau of the -Melbourne City Council. H<- is stated to have been in good health yesterday.

WELLINGTON MAYORALTY. WELLINGTON. May 2. The sceoiml of votes east in the Mayoral clectim give.- Mr Wright, a majority of 273. or Li) more than the first figures disi lese.l. The i nrreeted figures are: Wright lO.Siti. I'laser 10,580, Ah Kenhie 1.228. (PICKET IMS PETE. CHRISTCHURCH. May 2. The inquiry into the allegation ol watered wickets at a re.-enl Wellingruii v. Canterbury match at Lancaster Park will be commenced on Tuesday next. The inquiry has been unilert ikon by the Management Committee ol ihe New Zealand. Ciiekct Council at the request of the Wellington Cricket Association. Messrs D. (. Collins and 3. S. Hid Heston. of Wellington, will arrive in Christi.hurch on Tuesday to give evidence.

UNEMPLOYED'S SUICIDE. WELLINGTON. -May 2. Charles Wilcox, a married man, icsiding at Kelbum. committed suicide to-day by taking pnii-mi. Deceased bad been out of employment tor some time. PROGRESS LEAGUE. RT’OUESI. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 3. The Progress League has telegraphed to the Internal Alfairs Department asking it to authorise and bear tho expense, not exceeding £.lO, oi tbc ieeount of the City election on the English method of counting, which gives the final results of a proportional representation poll within eight hours. It is claimed that the expen. tliturc is fully justified in view of the probable adoption of proportional representation elsewhere. ABORTION CHARGE. BLENHEIM, Alay 3. Win. Arthur Thomas Hollis was charged with using an instrument with intent to procure abortion and 1 hnmas AleVigg“r> was charge! with procuring Hollis to commit the crime, at the .M.agi-tiate's Court this morning. Both were loitiandod to the Sth. inst. 1U 1i; s was allowed bail, in two sureties of £SOO mid Yigttrs in one surety of £4OO mid himself £IOO.