DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

T [u.y TELEGRAPH ASSOCIATION.} I , TWO NATALITIES. } ". ' AUOKk^V^ f ." rrJ ‘' . 1 A man not -'^riv I of age, who stood to have been* 4 doing .work.at, Kangariri Hills *1 • was beipjf given. a. rite by Robert Alalj colip/of Mount' Eden,' who 'met him | J&fmpifig, ivas.'killed by the capsize of j a car through- a collision with an elec- ] trio power-pole, Malcolm being temporarily.. stunned. The stranger was driving.when the accident occurred. /Hit-hard Thomas Gnaggs, single, 21, was knocked down by a- motor car on l’onsonby Hoad last night while wait- ! 'ing to' lionrd a tram car and died in' j - the hospital.from injuries to Ins bead.

CONFIDIJNCE TP. ICK.. AUCKLAND,' 'March 28. • A confidence -trick wsis responsible for the-appearance at the Police Court of John Lewis, -who was sentenced to sis .months’ imprisonment, to be follbfed by a similar period of reforma-tivo-Hreatraent. A Swede named Carl Oscar Nilsoii, a through passenger by the Mali ura, came ashore and met accVised, who said ho also was a passenger from Suva, but had been confined to his bunk all the way. He said he had a. sister in - a bank, who could change-money for Nilson, and the latter" handed, over seventeen' dollars. Nilsoii was told to wait outside the building;' Lewis l escaping by another way. The police were informed and-, communicated with Cook’s Tourist Agency, with the result that when a boy appeared with seventeen -dollars to. change he Was detained and took the police to accused’s rendezvous.