DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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LARUE SCHOOL BURNT. AUCKLAND. Nov. 12 New market, public school, with accommodation for 2'ifl pupils, wa- destroyed |, v lire la-t night. Smoke was seen is--i,mg from the budding at SJ’h. The brigade were summoned, lull in a lew minutes the while building worn ablaze ami cllor Is lo overcome the lire tailed. Two firemen were overcome by smoke :m .r had to he assisted from tlm building. The school papers ami a If"' de-ks were saved. The origin is a eomplele merry. No lire had been lighted in ilm -chonl lor several weeks. It istated that the fume- of benzine .or kerosene were detected during the fire. The s i 1 will he conducted in a iniiruni it a m.-w Imihliug is erected. SCHOONER \YRE( K ED. WCKI.AND, Nm 12 Th" a'ixiliu!" schooner Kal-> "a' iotaliv wrecked at Niue Island on 21th ('etcher Messages irom Apia announce ibe 'an i'v.'l of th" T-hip'-- LL-h-at there. TC re.-si t wii< on her first voyage "»• a',, c.quract- with the N-w Fealaml Covet mm-m to entry mat*' H ,c. n Auchlaml ami Niue. It t- '*«pposed -h" was overtaken by a stornt while riding at anchor oil' Amt', , • i T'..,. K a,, v.a- a wooden, driven a-hoi, . I m Ixd . , three-masted -chooiter lilted wttli 2o() ~ „ somi-Diesol engine-, giving a M'm"l (I |'s knots. The distance bid ween Apia and Niue is «.v-r week’s sail m l;'V,|Ulable weather. It is not known wnei the w hole crew made the trip in tlie lifeboat. ! AI) DRDNYNKD. INVERC ARUILL. Nov. 12 While liathing in Winhomii river Saturday. Charles .lames, aged Hu j„t„ dill'mullie.- in midsttvam and was drowned. His brother William. wa.* re-etti'd in an exhausted comlmuU Uy Alliert Maitland, a post office employe! , wlio jumped in to his rescue Hiht cl :th*',l. The body was recovered.

a SENSATION. WELLINGTON. Nov. 12. Another sensation i- reported. A gang of hoodlums visile,l 1 residence ’"?(■ M,. s Hoi ills and two daughters on Friday night and attempted to break In. Their object was frustrated by a loaded gun being presented. 1-iASSAL FINED 220. (: R E YAIOI’TI I, Nov. 12. .lames lias-all pleaded guilty to pine a common gaming house and lined C2II with costs. John Cam for assisting in Dm management «.l was lined LI wth costs. Ihe man found on the premises was fmed os.

JOCKEY I)lSO FA 1.1 FI ED. DPNEDIN, Nov. 12 Hawera races. Townley a jockey, was disqualified for life for foul riding, j AY VTF.RSIDF.BS RESPAIE. DPNEDIN. Nov. 12. The watersiders respondetl to the m. ’ruing call to man Dm Fnh.n Coy vesTbe pod i- now working normal lv. . .. MOTOR YCI.E FATALITY. WELLINGTON. Nov. 12. A motor cycle accid.cnt at Happy Yallev road on Saturday evening had fatal results. Victor Bennett was driving eiai (i.'nr'-e Smith riding behind him. and Samuel Cubby was in the side car. the m 'chine was going slowly down t'->'

; read where drainage works are in pro- ! e-css. but at one share b 'nd. Dm side j , t j-CTr.i and to eountor tbi-. Bennett ! t '..'iimd the eve!,* suddenly, and the ma--1 chine struck a fence guarding fhe ; trench and Cubby was thrown out into j the ditch, suffering a fractured spine j and died in the hospital next morning, j Deceased resided at Harland St., VogelI tOWU '