DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

fHY TKEKOIUPII--FBK PIIKSS ASSOCIATION.] .menace to i-dui:si i;v. GHEISTCIIIECH. December d. Reporting to the Board to-day. the Superintendent of the Selwyn I’l.mtations IJu'ird, stated that for the past six weeks, only .8!) inches of rain had fallen in the Dar/ield district. Should tin drying winds continue much limner it was rally reasonable to expect a fairly high death rate in the newly established ] dan tat ions. CASK OF sneiDK. CIIBISTCIiriH 11. Deeenilier 5. Ormond Butler, lined 77. a narilener, was lon in! dead on the Hour yesterday, with a gas tube beside him, and the {'ll,-; turned full on. lie suffered irom earner in the throat. SCIiCKBY AT SKA. ACCKLAXI), Dee. d. A successful operation was carried out at sea last .Monday in the ‘‘PortVictor,” which arrived from Liverpool l-mlay. Seaman L. Wlilis developed an iusl behind the ear, and this was removed by Dr Bran-grove, the anaesthetic being administered by a lady doctor, Miss E. M. I lubbc, of Adelaide, as Dr Ban-grove's in.-tru-menls were on another steamer. It was necessary to improvise ,-hissids. the ship’s carpenter ami chief engineer assisting in this matter. The chief engineer and a passenger assisted at the oncralinn, which was performeil in the saloon, the ship's speed being reduced for two hours. BODV KOI'XI). A 1 CKI.AND. December 'I he body of W illiam Seurragh, of Moruingsidc, was found in the ILrbnur a* St. Htdliers. Deceased, who was eighty years old, was a retired sea captain, having been in the coastal trade about sixty years. He left, home last evening, lie was a widower with, live daughters, and two sons, all grown up.

& UNION COY’S STEAMERS. WELLINGTON. Dec. 4. Tliu Union Co. animnmc.s that the Mfiheiio replaces the Manuka in the In-tpr-Colonkil service, sailing Ircmi Wellington <ni 4th. .laniuny. Ihe Manuka leys nj). In view of the heavy booking', U kits Keen tU*ei(.lerl the Maraioa '■.ill inuke a special tup lo Lyttelton I iota Wellington on 21st. I)e eml'or, returning next day. The Marrua relieves the W'ainui on the I’ieton sefviee during Ninas holidays, making nor first trip from Wellington on 21th. December, returning to Wellington the same evening. I{KYOLYEUS JN HEDGE. CMKISTCIIUIIC'H, Dec. I A mystery is attached to the discovery, in the hedge at Ilelmore’s Hoad, el' a handle of revolvers. The polke urn inclined to think that they are part, of a haul made liy burglars at a second .shop eighteen months ago. TROUBLE AT YKSTY’S MEAT won ks. Z*~ (ItSIiOHNK, Dee. I. When Yesty Urns recently acquired freezing works opened yesterday some trouble arose with tiie slaughtermen who, under the old regime had heen receiving 2s (id per hundred in addition to the award rate on account <n it lining a country works, and wome nl tin- men having their homes in the ’ town and journeying out twelve miles from the town each day. Ihe management advised that the old arrangement no longer existed and they were not prepared i-> pay an advance on the. award rate, especially as there was pleat v ol good accommodation toi the workmen existing at the works, where IT out of the .‘lO slaughtermen are already in residence. An agreement not being come to work was not commenced. A large number () i men are idle.