DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

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SOLICITOR SUSPENDED. | WELLINGTON, July . 27. Thu Court of Appeal gave judgment in no application li.y the Now Zealand l.aw Society to .‘•trike Archibald Lynn Dennisiun oil tlie roll ol baristei's and solictors. .1 udgincnt was delivered by Air Justice Husking. His Honor said that there was no reason for the alleged shortages in Denniston’s trust account. U had hecn -hewn liv Denni.-ton that the money which ought to have Leon in the account was not there when required. There had undoubtedly keen improper dealing with trust- funds. Considering the fact that all the money had now been accounted for, the case would ho met.-by suspending Denniston from practice for lour calendar months. Denniston was also ordered to pay costs a.s between solicitor and client.

NEW RAILWAY LINE. TENDERS TO EE INVITED. WELLINGTON. July 27. It is announced that the Government intends to call for tenders for the <onstruction of eighteen miles of r« il\vj;y liotwccn Ksiti'cali and To Puna on the Waihi-Tnuranga line. The period is three years, by which time the connection between Tauranga and To Puna i.i expected to be ready. It is twenty years since railway work j.as been done, outside the Public Works Department. Tenders will Le called in England. Canada. Australia and New Zealand.

A CHANGED POLICY. j , WELLINGTON, July 27. The fact tTiat the .Public Works IJepaitment is calling for tenders for railway construction on the east coast of ilit- N'oi lb Island from American. Alls- ! truliau and English contractors was the subject' of criticism by Air Holland, j leader of ilie Labour Party, during the , discussion in committee on the estimate-. j .Mr Holland said that when Air Theodore, Premier of Queensland, got money from American capitalists Rcform members hero called him disloyal yet they were advertising in American papers asking American capitalists to submit tenders against British eontractors for railway construction work in New Zealand. The serious aspect was that the Government was departing from a system established here for j twenty-live years, and was making that departure without consulting Parlia- 1 nient. Reform members: Quite right. ..'ii Holland replied that lie could quite understand those who were ssii-licd 11 > have no will nf their own being satisfied that the people should Have no re], i esentat ion, but from the |iobi. m view ol' the public it ujis mu right. Was this reversion to a. .-y-lem that had been proved cosily wherever tried the re-till of dictation on lhe part of Lnndaii financiers, who I

lent U- money for these works' Wes n a condition of the loan that the <!<•. D iTieolil mu-( revert to tlm <-oniract sy.-tem in order that the financiers t.'.cinselves might come in and get a nit out of the profits. Sir George Hunter ruled Air Holland out of order, a decision which on appeal was upheld by Air Speaker, who held fiiat discussion mi the ■ public works policy on the cm rent estimates was irrelevant. YOUNG WG-MAN'S Si'll IDE. WELLINGTON, July 2b. To-day there was a search made as the result of a report to the Mult police that a person was seen to jump from the Moiling Bridge into the Hull River. The roareh resulted in the lindiug of tire hotly ut a young woman named ALnnl AtildicJ Welker. 2.1 yea; of age. She mi, a unlive ol England. She had been in New Zealand only lor nine lo twelve months.

COURT OF APPEAL. , WELLINGTON. July 27. In the ease of the Commissioner of Stamp Duties v. Todd, the Appeal Court’s .judgment was that the transfer of shares was not complete until afier April 17th. 1921. The result was that hath gilts came uilliin the period of one year, and were assessable tor gift duly. The appeal was thcreioro allowed. and Ihe respondent was ordered to pav the costs of argument in the Supreme Court, (£lO IDs) and the costs of the appeal on the lowest scale as on a case from a distance. In Rowley and another v. the King a claim for a refund of duty on whisky the Court held that the appellants were not entitled to a refund. The appeal was dismissed with costs on the middle st ale. In Alary Parish v. Albert Parish, all of the judges agreed that the wile had not, h.v her contract with her husband, prevented li 'i'self Irom coming lo Court Mu! asking for proper maintenance from her deceased husband's e-tale. Mr Justice Hoskii.g said that the rights oi veil to a widow hv the Family Protection Ad were inalienable, and could not lie affecieil by a contract not to exercise them. 'The Court, therefore allowed the widow interest on £2099 for life from her do,- eased husband' , estate.

T) C.NE DIN EX 111 BIT TON. DUNEDIN, .Tul.v 27. Tlm Provisional Directors ol the Exhibition commenced this morning a series ol meetings ol business men in group industries to stimulate subeription. At the first meeting 875 shares wore subscribed in the room. INSULIN TEE ATM ENT. WELLINGTON. July 29. Cpnn inquiries being made from .Mr J. A. Hurley, the Government Bacteriologist. who is in charge of the Government Hospital Board laboratories, it was ascertained that insulin treatment of diabetes has already started in Wellington. Only very severe cases are being treated at present, as the supply of insulin is very small. Further supplies are expected to arrive shortly. So far the treatment here lias been successful.

FT RE AT CAMBRIDGE. CAMBRIDGE. July 28. "Kenilworth,” a boardinghouse, was destroyed by fire this morning. Nothing was saved. Afl the hoarders and inmates escaped unharmed. Tlie insurances on the building are:—£6oo in tlie State Office, and £SOO in the New Zealand Office: oil the contents £SOO in the State Office.