DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[I!V TEL Edit A TH— I'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FATAL FALL FRO AI HORSE. A ICELAND, November 29. Leonard A. Seaton, aged 11, died in the Hospital to-day, as the result of injuries through a fall from a lior.se, on the farm of his father, Air AY. Seaton, at Clevedon, on Sunday. He was rounding up cattle when the horse stumbled throwing him oil his head, resulting in concussion. FARMER’S .SUICIDE. A STRANGE CASE. (TIKLSTCU I RCH, November 2S. Edwin Huia Parham, a .single man. aged .it), a tanner o! Seiton, suicided by -hooting himself with a gnu. Rainham. v.ini was the sldvsi s, n of Waiter Pal Ilham, in Kainpoi, was an ex-soldier, having seived with the sixth reinforcements. He wav leasing a farm of 170 acres at Hilton. and was doing well, and he had no tinnneial worries. Up to the past few days, he hrd always apI cared to he in good spirits. On Sun-

day last, however, when at his fathei’.plate at Kabip.'.i. he seemed depiessed and said that it.g to what, had trims

pi red in connect ion with the tnk in oiei of a farm at Kainpoi by bis fatke his friends were “cutting" him. an

he was feeling. The next two days hi .seemed to be wuiricd. and left a letter indicating that he intended to take blown lilT.

At the imtuoM. tin* vetdiet was that I’:itilh:>in suicided while sniffling from mental depression. lONIC’S BIG DRAUGHT. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 29. When the White Star liner ‘Tonic” makes her depart lire from Lyttelton t<>lao; row . .she, will he ill awing TO feet id i. and about TO feet foi anl. T Ids draught will cotistitute a record so far as a Height earlier leaving the port of I.;,Ueltou is concerned. Hie Athenic, in 191 I, was dispatched fiom Lyttclt- n diawing a draught of 29 feel forward and .TO feet aft. wlii.h. up to the present stood as a record for a cargo carrier. H.AI.S. "Renown" at tile imie of her visit, was draw ing .TlHeet oinckos alt. so the lonic draught will be only about six inches slant of the Renown’*, draught.

YOTE EOR SOLDIERS’ AI EAIORI A L WELLINGTON. Nov. TO. The City Council lasi night decided to make a donation of live thousand sterling toward' the soldiers’ memorial J to he erected in the city. WELLINGTON EIRE. WELLINGTON, Nov. TO A (ire last night in Lindsay’s Building, Laiiihton Quay, opposite the Public Trust Buildings, gutted the lumber room upstairs; al-u the rooms adjoining occupied by ■). S. Eairchild, dentist. Lindsay's hoot shop on the ground floor suffered considerably from water. BAND CONTEf-Ts. CHBISTt HTT.'CM. Nov. 29. Twenty-two bands Irue entered for the South Island Band contest. They are av follows: - “A.” Grad.- Test.- V'/oolston. St. Kiida. Invercargill. Hibernian. Eiis-t Canterbury .Mounted Rilles (Ashburton). Invercargill Battalion. Barlington’s Citv of Sydney Band (formerly Reclforn .Municipal). .Municipal Silver Band (Kun.mign). South Ca.nterbnry Battalion (Tiimira). (,limcn’s Alexandra’s Own (Wanganui), port Nicholson Silver (Wellington!. Wellington Tramways. •Hi." (Hade T'.-st .■ --Thi rd Artill ry (Dunedin). New i’.i'ighton .Munieipal, Greyniouth Af uiiici j>a I, Christchurch Tramways, NTT- on (.a rrisoii, Oanniru Aluuicipal, Kainpoi Brass. Dunedin City. Tramways. Hastings Citizens. Fifth .Mounted Ritb: -, (Gamara'.

First Battalion Wellington. The whole of these hands have also entered for the Quickstep competition. MIS< MORAN'S DEATH. WELLINGTON. Xov. 30 At i lu* inquest on AIDs Moran ai open verdict of found drowned was returned. Her sister evidenced that deceased siiiforod Iron] heart (rouble and attacks of glddiiic---. The steward on the Manama stated that lie saw I lie deceased early on the morning of arrival from Wellington and she eXjiro •-cd gladness to he home. HON R. F. liOid. MID. HAMILTON, Nov. :.!!). lion E. F. Ballard. Minister of luternnl Affairs, is visting th" district. He was warmly welcomed everywher. on his promotion in the Minisirv. !!- opened the liorLieiilt ural show at Raglan yesterday and in an addiess referred to the excellent prospects ol the country owing io the improving situation all round. A DIVORCE HAPPENING. HAMILTON. Nov. 30. At the Supreme Court, an unusual divorce case was heard. William Thompson in .June ohtainel a decree nisi, null then left for Sydney an i married again, believing the decree absolute was made in the meantime. However, the Judge refused to grant a ib'ciee absolute until satisfied that proper provi-mn was made tor akmonv. Thompson was brought hack I-V Ins wile and charge I with leating the country during the currency ot a mainienance order, lie was convicted and discharged. Since then he has made satisfactory provision for alimony, and a decree ah-nluie v.as granted, ile will now. in order to legalise his second marriage have to go ! hrough Lite ceremony again. CA NT F.R B CRY WE AT 11EII. ASHBURTON. November 30 Anxiety is felt lor w-e goon lit Isos'mg to the recent dry hot spell. { lib ss the wentier breaks seem, cities wiil be roi!«ly for harvest beloie with a. crop, while wheat , of which mueh was spiing sown and haekward. promises to ripen off with oiuy a >ixt> per lent average yield. Pastures also are alLeted. One live slock man stated a day's soaking rrin would heneiit hue £ 1 (IP si ding.

DAIRY COMPANY PINED. NELSON. November 29. A case of some interest to dairy tnctories was dealt v.ith Alt C. E. Afnun sell S.M.. at the Ah(gist:ale's ('unit, u i er. He' Maintea Dairv (.nnpany. 1.'.d.. was charged on live informations with making false .statements on railway consignment notes, stating the cans *wing returned to supplieis were ‘'empty, whereas they contained (|iianlities of butter. A plea of guilty was entered on four charges, ami on the fifth one of “not guilty" in order to allow the Company to make an explanation of ibe circumstances. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £.*> on the first charge and 30s on each of the remaining four. Costs amounting to £5 Bs. were also ordered to he paid by the defendants. stowaway sentenced. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 30. floury Victor Crawford, aged 21. who

arrived at a stowaway by the Dorset in April, was sentenced by Afr Justice Adams to five years reformative treatment tor extensive thefts at the farm where he was a stable hoy. He was previously convicted in Wellington lor theft and admitted to probation. Eater he was sentenced to two months for a similar o/fcnce.

RADIUM TREATMENT. DUNEDIN. November Til. At a Conference on tlm subject of Radium held between the Otago Hospital Board and representatives of the North Canterbury Board, Air Knight, chairman of the Otago Boaid. said that it was understood that Christchurch had no particular desire for a radium depai tment at present. Air Otlev. Chairman of the C-mter-buiy Board, said that visitors really come for information and '.'.ere anxious to make arrangements wit h oil her Wellington or Otago. The bosiids should receive and pay for a .-sis tili.Ee given in radium treatment.. Dr. Barnett, referred to the splendid results oi radium treatment at Biiuni ui. He suggested that Dunedin should obtain an emanation outfit from wdn'.-h Dunedin Mould he able Lo supply the needs of Otago, Canterbury and Southland. His opinion wav that it was mil'll better for Canterbury lo depend on Hum-din at present, and lie strongly advised Canterbury not lo go in lor expenditure in the meantime. The diHiculties ,1' ip,, -:traiivp(i|'t:-i.tioiij of tubes had been overcome in other parts. Dr. Barnett also suggested that the '.759 which th> Canterbury Board had m hand lor radium might be used n.i- ---\ nniageously on a deep X-ray plant . The visitors ret in lied t hanks and expressed appreciation of |)r. Barnett’s work in cnuncetion with radium. CO.M.MIS.sroNKR OF STATE FORESTS. BALAIERSTON. Nor. TO. Sir Heaton Rhodes, Commission.''!' of Males I' orc.vts, arrived from tlie no; tJi 9-day ami ins;-,.vted the sand dunes on the Aiii-nawatu anil Raiigitikei I caches. The Depari meat i> carrying on! im laniatiou tree planting work on . the dunes on till, eoa-t near the (Ilona i

Tim AI ill is t, ■ r is accompanied hv All .Macintosh Ellis. Director of the Stale forest v(.|-\->; , Mr Darby, udicer in (•lunge of the Welliugtiui region of the Dej-a; t mem and .Mr l.inklator ALB.