DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[UV TLLKGIIAPit —l'Elt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] I’OPl’Y DAY FUNDS. WELLINGTON, -MarchJil The local branch of the R.S.A. unanimously endorses the action of tile New Zealand Association with regard to tlie disposal of the Poppy Day funds for 1924. 3-YEAR OLD GIRL BURNT. INVERCARGILL, .March 31. The three-year old daughter of Herbert Rodorique, a settler at l’apatotarn, was fatally burned through her dollies catching liio during the temporary absence of her mother. A sister, aged live made, a plucky attempt to extinguish' the flames and was also severely bicrn-

S.B. AKA HUB A. BUFFETED BY CYCLONE. AUCKLAND, -March 31. The Araliura anived from Gisborne at ten last- night six hours late. Au hour after leaving Gisborne, without warning the steamer encountered a cyclone which Hung the steamer about like a cork. The storm continued with unabated l'urv till 9 p.in. on Sunday when silo rounded East Cape. Apart Lom flooding some of the cabins very little damage was done. On Saturday about -1 p.m. the wind suddenly rose to a high easterly gale which struck the ship like a shot out of a gun. Within a few minutes, the sea and sky seemed mingled together. The rain poured down in a deluge and the sea rose as quickly as the wind. For the next few hours the crew had a trying time, and the passengers a terrifying ordeal. The seas were like combers on a beach as they struck the Araliura’s how, breaking oil board and flooding the decks. The fierce wind lashed the tops of the waves and carried a blinding, spray high over the bridge. A call was to have been made at lokomaru Bay, hut the stormy conditions made it impossible, and passengers and mails for that port were carried to Auckland. During the height of the tempest, the magnetic conditions made the wireless temporarily incapable of receiving oi sending messages. East Cape seemed t 0 mark the edge of the storm area, liecause shortly alter the vessel rounded that point, the storm ceased almost with the remarkable suddenness it had sprung up. With one shift, the wind changed from east to north and then west-south-west to south. When the wind reached the latter, the black storm clouds cleared from the .skv like a curtain drawn away. Those on the Arabui'n 'were delighted to see the bright stars shining and the storm fast passing astern. DECLARED DEAD BY LAW. BUT MAX TURNS UP AGAIN. WELLINGTON. -March 21. Declared dead hv the Supreme Courtover fifteen years ago, Walter Noilson, was invested with life on Saturday last afetr being missing for twenty years. Noilson who is a seafaring man, was assumed by his family to be dead in 1902, when Air Justice Cooper granted an order declaring so at the end of the customary seven years. Thus since 1909 the man had been dead in the eyes of the law and the interest in his estate has since found its way to his children. The missing man has always been a wanderer and has voyaged over the civilised globe since he was last heard of. He now follows the calling of a ship’s cook. He was saved from several torpedoed ships during the war. Oil satisfactory proof of his identity being given the Chief Justice granted an order reinvesting Noilson with his legal personality.

the KINGSDALE CASE. DUNEDIN, March 31

A young man, AATilter Leonard James Cameron, was charged at the Police Court with conspiring with John Richards to defraud Gore Racing Club, the ease arising from the alleged substitution of the trotting horse “The Dingo” for “Kingsdale.” Accused was remanded to April 4, when John Richards will appear. Bail was fixed at £3OO, the Magistrate indicating that if it was not forthcoming he could consider an application for a decrease. WIRELESS. WELLINGTON, March 31. Local amateurs, possessors of listening in wireless outfits were unable last night to pick up Sir George Fenwick’s speech which was to he broadcasted from Chicago. It is possible amateurs at Motueka may have succeeded, but communication with that place was not available last night. Local wirelessers consider the week-end weather conditions unfavourable for the test.