DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[liV TKI.KCRAI’II —PICK I‘HKS.S ASSOCIATION.] A BOY INJURED. PA LAI EKsiTON N.. July 5 Clifford Sopwell, 12’. was crush'd by the rear wheel of a motor lorry yesterday. The hoy had seized .‘mid of the side of Hie lorry and was being pulled along when his bicycle wip'd skidded and lie wa- thrown under the wheels which passed over his abdomen, lie was hospitalled with serious iu-

COAIAIITTKD EDI! SENTENCE. AUCKLAND. July 5. At the Police Court. Ernest Harold 'L L an. a carpenter, was committed for ;entenee, having admitted that lie went through the form of marriage at Dargaville in January, 1922, while Idwile. who was married in 1913, was still living, with three children. SHOT BY UNSEEN PERSON. GREY LYNN. July 5 Pan le Pan. a Aiaiiti returned soldier. who was looking tor a hor-e in the hush at Kaitaia, was shot by an unseen person, thirty pellets entering his face, lliree in one eye. and a number in Ills chest ami shoulder. li feared that he u ill lose I in- i ;hl oi one eye. A search is proceeding lor a native suspected ol the shooting. BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. WELLINGTON. July 5. A deputation Irom l lie various i'toInstant deitntiiinnticns who were re- | q e'en led at the B ■ lile-i 11-S, I- CouR rente l.i-t \enr, wailed on the IL.n \Y. E. Alasscy. and the Hon Air I’arr to-dav, asking that legislation in* brought down this session enabling; Lillie lessons to be giveh 111 St a " j -ehools. While wholly sympathetic with Dm | request. Air Alasscy stud he could I ,t j promise that he could get a Bill j brought (low n this session owing to | the Itcavv programme to he laced before he could get away to the Imperial j ( out ermine. At the -a tone lie indicated that lie was not opposed to the introduction oi a private measure j dealing with Hie sllhieet. | SUDDEN DEATH. PALMERSTON N.. July 5. (ha lies Peacock, aged about 15. a man ied man with no children, dropI I'd dead in the street to-night of heal I failure. Eo: mi rlv he was a resident el Rotorua. He had been in Palmerston North about, lour months, not being engaged in any occupation. FAILURE OF STAFF. ASHBURTON, duly fi. The Railwav Department states that the Mount Somers’ derailment on June | At!i was due to ihe following , airse : - ••Tim lailure of the railway stall to r'tuple the Wcstingliouse brake eouitoi iii>n throughout the whole train.’ COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. At", lx LAND, July fi. At the Police Court. Frederick Linton, aged 1 8, was committed for sentence on a charge of breaking; and entering the dwelling of I. A). Rennie, Rea lev Avenue, Christ church, and stealing the sum of LI 17. ’lhe accused admitted the theft and stated that lie stayed two weeks in Wellington and then came on to Auckland, lie -pen! all the stolen money on cigarettes and pictures. Later he mid a man named Ellis and they broke into three private houses and one hits.lies* place. Both were arrested.