DOMINION ITTEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITTEMS.

• -o> pi.v -j'laKGit.U'n—ft:it muss association.J THE WEATHER iX AUCKLAND. SLIP ON MAIN TRUNK. AUCKLAND. June 25. The weather < oniimies cold, with heavy rain .squalls. The rainfall foils hours to midnight was 9.92iu. and for the month till 9 a.m. on Saturday. (j,G2in. ’J’lie Main Trunk Express, arriving this moruing passed through heavy snow between Raurimu ai.d Waimarino and north ol Taihape. A landslip of thousands of tons of earth oceiired oil Sunday morning this side of the Newmarket Tunnel. A huge gang cleared the railway line, which prevented a serious interruption of traffic. A 1.1. EC ED THEFT. CHRISTCHURCH. June 25. Martin Matthew Holland, a postal official aged 23. was charged with thelt .-I a postal package at Darfield on May ;l|st. He was remanded till Thursday the Chief Detective staling a number of oiher charges were to he laid. MOTOR CAR THEFT. . CHRISTCHUIH 11. June 25. The third motor ear theft in nine day.- iiei-nrrc’d on Saturday night, when the piivate garage ol U. S. Nieholls, a. land agent, was entered by a side door am! the ear driven off. The ear was found on Sunday morning near Bromley Cemetery with the tail light missing. A coil of hose was stolen by the thieves. GISBORNE NEWS. GISBORNE. June 25. The ne.i-es-arv guarantees of about 10.900 bales of wee 1 for the local sales have been received. The waterside dispute is settled. Gisborne Slieepfai-mers Company's permanent lightermen joined the l niou this moning. IN QUARANTINE. AUCKLAND. June 25. Six mere of the Alakura s pn-'i-eyo: have' been released from quarantine, leaving ab-mt the same ntimber on the Llaml. The condition iff the fireman from the l limaroa at Mlitnilli. siiflermg from influenza with lung trouble, is reported to show no improvement. JUDGMENT GIVEN. AUSKI.AXD. June 25 The breaking of four casks of crockery, part of a consignment from Liverpool to Auckland, per -Middlesex, ill October last, according to a judgment given by Mr Justice Stringer, was due To the peril ot the sea and not to improper stowage, in the action by F. E. Jackson and Co., against the New calami Shipping Coy. The plaintiffs lud failed to satisfactorily establish the onus on them that it was due to improper stowage. Judgment was g.veii for defendant with costs as per scale.