DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv TKLEGItAI'II—PEIt I’itESS ASSOCIATION.]

CABLE LAYING. AUCKLAND, Aug. Id j The cable layer, Stephen, which left ■ on Friday with the short end of the’ duplex Suva cable, returned this morning. having connected with the Ocean ! end of the cable one hundred mile:-,, distant. The work was completed at I 10 on Saturday night. ' i SHORT WEIGHT COKE. WANGANUI, Aug. 13 j The Borough Council was fined C 3 ; at Court to-day for supplying short I weight coke to customers. The evi- • deuce showed a shortage of tour bund- i red weight in 25 sacks. DEATH ROLL, WELLINGTON. August if. j in common with other districts, the persistent cohl of this winter has shown ' H cil'cet rqi the death roll. The in- ! ternments in July number 117 as j against 93 last year. So far this mouth I the rate i- still higher blit there arc: signs of wanner weather now setting in. COAL SHIPMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 14 The Kawatiri has arrived from New \ castle with four thousand tons of coal, 1 said to he the first mined since the strike. i A FIRE. | DUNEDIN. Aug. 14. A lire took place early this morning at Gregg and Coy’s starch works on Harbour Terrace, a throe-storey factory being gutted. The stock in the place was destroyed. The damage is estimated at between LtiOtKl and £7i!.‘li). Insurances total £6900. HASTINGS EIRE. HASTINGS. Aug. 14. A lire broke out in the shop of Richard Martin, outfitter, Hcretaunga St. last night. The fiu’ilding was a wooden one which the Eire Brigade saved, but ilia stock and fittings were practically destroyed by lire and water. Stock ami fittings were insured for C 2.500 in Alliance. Norwich Union and F armors’ 1 liion. The building was owned bv J. M. Cameron, and insured for £520 in Atlas Company.