DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

|BY Tl-'l.t'C It A I’ll HICKSON AT GiSI’OI’XK. GISBORNE, Oct 17. The lui.--ion i,f spiritual lauding coiidiletcd by Mr Hick-on was opened at ■ Osborne to-dav. There are over (IT) European am! about !s:i Maori patients to I " treated. Tiie service this morning was of an exceedingly solemn nature, and many professed receiving n spiritual up-lit i, hut no mitacttlous ( tires so far arc reported. SEXUAL DEFENDER SENTENCED. All Ki. UNI'. Oct. 17. Mr Justice Stringer sentetau d William lliake Knrx. a middle aged man. to ten years imprisonment for four tu decent as-nulls on males, lie said the prisoner was not fit to lie at large, and hut for prisoner's state of heal! It be would have ordered a (Ingoing. II the ligislntuiv Imd entrusted the Court with the power. as he thought it should, lie would have subjected pri-

soner to a surgical onerntion which would have rendered him comparatively harmless.

WIFE'S ( tI.M PEN'S ATiOX. CIIR ISTCIII' RCi I. Oct. !7. At the Supreme Coin! Mary Catherine Maekle was awarded £!2D9 damages against the kuikmiru .Minor Company for the death of her husband, who was killed as a result of one of the defendant's cars, in which plaintiff and deceased wore travelling, colliding with a trap at Belfast through the negligent driving of the defendant's servant. COM PETITIONS. GORE, Od. 17. The Gore Comp "I iitoie. Society’s festival opened to-dav. with record entries totalling 110(1. The sessions continue daily for a week. SLY GRoGGKKS |IN E|). TE KEITI, October 18. At the Mgaisl rate's Court. John Cow per, an cldeily one-armed canin', was fined fifty 1 ottnds on a charge of sly-gleg .-ellhi;;. The evideme di.-chr—-ed that the aci t|sc;| teceivcd one hundred and forty bottles of whisky in twenty-live days. Ihe whisky was ordered by telegrams, hearing fictitious signatuies. -John Cow per junior w as lined twenty pounds lor attaching fictitious names to orders and ( owl or senior v.us also lined !iv<- pounds oil a similar charge. ELECTRIC LIGHT EOR NELSON. NT-I-SOX, October IK. Xels'iii'n Muniuipuj elect r'ic light power supply for which a lean of seventy thousand was raced, was i llii-iallv turned on hist evening by the Mayotess (Mis Lock). The project had i.ci-n delayed for several year-, lending liydro-po-sibililics. A steam plant ms illsialled. io act as a standby, in the t-v.-ni of a district hydro-electric scheme developing. PREHISTORIC REMAINS. WANGANUI, 0.-t. 11. For many years past there have hoejt stories of the remains of a prehistoric monster in tin: bed in one oi the creeks in the wil dmoimtainnus .Moawhaiigo country, inland and cast id 'Jaihapo. There is a .Ham i legend that a monster once inamed the upland country ol the Wainttru plains and Llie rugged laslltesses of the Kaimatiawa ranges, but tlto dicynodou. or whatever it was, was tegarde das something iu the nature oi a myth. Now comes a more modem version, and tho stun i- an interesting i,ne. In 18S2 Mr P. tiedlington. a v.oll-knowu surveyor iu earlier days, was cutting u film Awartin block and embedded in sand-tone formation in the bed of the Wnifcw'.tui stream, a trihutoiy of the Xgaiuroro river, which flows across Hawke's Ray, he discovered tiie fossilised remains of a monster sixty feet in length. Camp stools were cut from the vertebrae. This interesting fact was mentioned by Mr 8. A. Mail', tiie well-known engineer of the Rangitikei Comity Council, to a ‘'ChiniiiiTe” reporter yester- (!;, y, Mr Mail- said that Mr Redlington's veracity was beyond question and personally it,- ir’lievod that U'c remains were still there waiting to he rediscovered. ‘■Sotne years ago I explored the liver wit It the’ .Messrs Batley. of Moawhango.” said Mr Mair. “hut it was very difficult country, and the river l ed was full of detritus from the mountains. Put 1 am now arranging for another expedition to thoroughly explore the river." There the matter rests at present wit hnmnlo scope tor a local Smithsonian Institute. Should n he that the remains are located, it "ill prove that in the dim and distant past somethin!' of thi- dyiioccrus or ignanudon species did roam around the North Island, and that there is nothing now under tiie sun. even in New Zealand.