DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. PALMERSTON N., Juno 13. At the Police Court, James Leslie McKay, a Railway employee at Foxton. pleaded guilty to the theft of two small sums. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. PERSONNEL OF HIGHWAYS BOARD. WELLINGTON, June If. The personnel of the Highways Beard, is announced as follows: Messrs F. AY. Furkett, G. T. Murray, 0. G. Godfrey, J. D. Bruc-e, J. H. Jttll, and AL H. AVynard. The first three are the Government nominees, the next two representatives of the Counties Association and .Mr AVynard represents the owners of motor vehicles. ULIMAROA QUARANTINED. AUCKLAND, June 13. Owing to a c-a.se of influenza being discovered on the Ulimaroa, which arrived here from Sydney to-day, pratique was not granted to the ship. The port Health Officer. Dr. Shot-man, submitted the passengers, numbering 130, to a careful examination. He found all well.

A fireman, however, was found to bo suffering from influenza, his temperature being fairly high.

On instructions from Dr. Yalintinc. tlto vessel was not cleared, but remains in tho stream all night. The present arrangement is that she proceeds to quarantine anchorage at Motuili.i in the morning, where a careful .examination of all the passengers and crow will be carried out.

Besides 700 tons of cargo for this port, the Ulimaroa has 433 bores of mails for New Zealand, including 140 for Auckland. INFANT'S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. Joan Elizabeth Carrington, aged 1(5 months, died in the hospital to-day, as the result of swallowing a pin, which lodged in the left bronchus, on June j (It. The child's mother saw that it had the pin in its mouth and asked her to give it up. The child laughed when the request was made and the pin slipped down its throat. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. NELSON, June 13. The death occurred tit the hospital here to-day of the two-year-old daughter of Percy Newport. Yesterday, while sitting at the table, the child managed to tip a pot of boiling tea on to its face, mouth and throat, and was fatally scalded. SUPREME COURT. SENTENCES IMPOSED. Gisborne. June 13. At tho Supreme- Court. Bongj Ilapi, who bad pleaded guilty to a ehaige of indecent assault, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. Frank Bailor, aged 20. appeared on several charges of theft. He was sentenced to imprisonment for three months on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, followed by reformative treatment lor three years. AUCKLAND. June 13. \t the Supremo C'-ourt Janies Gotli„rp was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment on a charge of forgery and uttering. Justice Stringer -.aid tho prisoner had broken probation and was given another chance, hut had committed a third offence. AGRK ULTURAL BANKS. AUCKLAND. June 13. The Farmers’ Union Provincial Coti-tYivm-e resolved again cmphaiical.y tr press upon ihe Go", ernttieitt the u-s C--sits- for legislation to enable tanner.*' to form agricultural banks.

INVENTOR PROSECUTED. PALMERSTON X.. June 13. A remarkable invention worked L> •The two and full of the swell .4' the sea.” is claimed by Joseph Harvey Cornish. "ho was before the Conn this morning on three counts of misrepresentation, arising out of his disposal ol shares for the patent. Evidence win eicen by the j-H-.e and throe investors concerned, that tho n-cn-ed bar variously represented to the residents ol Shannon that the Government bad offered £7OOO, and on another occasion £s*.>oo for the invention which the accused bad declined, believing there wa more money in :!. Shares at £•:>, be alleged would bring return beyond computation, as the invention would th. away with hydro power, lie stated that lie intended to demonstrate his invention at Oiaiii or Foxton beach. In a statement to the police tho Recused declared that, during the past three months he (the tv ■.-used) him ot 1loeted £l5O Horn intending shut dodders. but this had been utilised to pay I,tick debts and maintain his wife ami lamTly at Foxton. It was expressly stated, in legally-prepared agreementsigned by the shareholders, that should the venture prove a failure, this money wrs nut to be returned. The accused was hailed at £ 150 and two similar sureties. t:ll Tuesday.

ter trade in Australia can be developed it is possible, that other shipments will follow from these ports. Tho new develcpment lias caused great interest among the graziers of the district, and it is not unlikely that prices for beef will harden. TIMBER ROYALTIES. COMMISSION SET UP. WELLINGTON, June 13. Tho Governor-General lias appointed John Strachan, late Under-Secretary of Lands, to be a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the extent to which local authorities may have incurred, or may incur, loss of revenue consequent upon the passing of tho Forests Act, 1921-22, and upon the provision which should be consequently made from the revenue of the Stnto Forest Service, or otherwise. The Commissioner leaves for Invercargill to-night, and will take evidence at that town. The Commission will afterwards leave for Balclutha and Dunedin. It will afterwards go to Christchurch and to the West Coast.