DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. MAGISTRATE COURT FINES. TE AWAMI’TU, Sept. I Before .Mr Platts, at the Magis trate's Court, George Leapai, a mitiv - of Hawaii, was charged with keepiiq t liquor for sale in a proclaimed area the King Country. The hearing oeett : pied several hours and the accused wa fined C2.j and costs £o. Arthur Wilding and William Cottl i ter, farmers of Ohattpo. wore chargee I with the theft of a large quantity o tools and milking machinery plan ■ from settlers in the locality. A re mend was granted when ntimerom charges involving the theft of tarn implements, amounting to severa hundred pounds worth, will he preferred. Several natives were fined for taking liquor into the King Country ant: -James Francis Me'.Mnllan was fined CIO for supplying the Maoris will the liquor. EGG EXPORT. DUNEDIN, Sept. I, Dunedin's contribution of sixty thousand dozen eggs, being exported under Government supervision to England. arrived at the railway yards this morning. It comprises 110 eases of thirty dozen each and fifty (-uses of pulp. GUILTY OF RAPE. CHRISTCHURCH, Sep!. -1 John Griffiths, aged ,‘il, who was arrested after an exciting hunt at Brighton on July 11th, was convicted at the Supreme Court: of attempted '•ape at Bttrwood on June ISih. .Sentence was deferred. IMPORTED COAL, WELLINGTON. Sept. During the recent long stoppage of work at the MailTand Mi iex, certain of the New South Wales ind tstrics were forced to make contracts for coal outside. I heir usual markets, however, having been temporarily captured, their coal output is being poured into New Zealand. Since August 18. 50.OIK) tons of coal has been shioped from Newcastle to New Zealand ports, and the importations are coming m at the rate of 10.00!) tons weekly. The 1 oca I mine owners, in face of this competition, are experiencing a difficulty in holding their trade together, and any interruption can only have the effect of causing the consumers to do as they did two years ago, namely, lay in stocks of Newcastle coal, with consequent ill effects on the mining industry of New Zealand. BURGLARS. TE AWAMI'TU. Sept. -I. Burgalrs entered Spear’s tobacconist shop last night, hut apparently look nothing. MOTOR CAR BURNED. TE AWAMI'TU, Soot. I. A motor car was hunted during the night on the road between Te Awnmuiu and Ohatipo. being completely destroyed. BIG MILK PRICE. TE AWAML'TU. Sept. I. Mervyn Wells (Chairman of Cambridge Dairy Coy.) slates he lias negotiated a sale of the Company’s cheese output at a price enabling a regular payout of twenty-three pence t,o suppliers between now and tic end of the year.