DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TEt.EOHAI‘I1 —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION

POISONOUS POLISH. AUCKLAND. May 3. As a result of recent Supreme Court proceedings regarding tho sale of a highly poisonous metal known •as Ava, K. J. Brittain, a storekeeper, was charged at the Police Court yesterday with haying sold a pernicious preparation containing prussic acid. Senior-Sergeant Rawle stated that the liquid polish had been declared to he a deadly poison and vendors had been warned not to sell their stocks. Upon analysis the preparation was found to contain cyanido and prussic acid. One teaspoonful of the liquid constituted a fatal dose. The defence was that notice of the dangerous nature of tho polish had not been received by the retailers who had stocks. A fine of £2 was inflicted.

JAW FRACTURED. CHRISTCHURCH, .May A

B. O’Connell, a member of the Hinds Football Club, had his jaw fractured while playing at Ashburton on Saturday. LEG FRACTURED. CHRISTCHURCH. May A. Lawrence Hobby, aged IT. was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday suffering from a fracture of tho right leg. The ,injury was received when the hov was knocked down by a horse and cart at the corner of Tuani and Durham Streets.

FOOTBALLER INJURED. CHRISTCHURCrir. May A. ,1. Wilcox, a member of the Squadron A. team, playing at English Park on Saturday afternoon, received an in jury to his knee cap. He was attended to by l)r (Yawshaw. HOTEL “ON THE MOVE.” GISBORNE, May 3. The shifting of the Muriwai Hotel a distance of fifty chains is the biggest work of the kind done in Poverty Bay. The original plan was to cut the hotel into several sections, and to re-erect it on the new position, but it was finally decided that the whole of the two-stor-eyed building should be removed intact.

The building was two-storeys high, measured ABft. by 33ft. and weighed roughly 71) tons. 1 lie’ hotel was on the road for IS days, and during tho whole of the time the boarders slept in it every night, having meals at a temporary structure that had been erected on the new site. The whole work occupied -t* days and the longest distance that the hotel was shifted in any one dav was a little over 3110 feet.

An amusing story is related nt one of the hoarders who slept in late one morning. When ho went to lied lor the night be noticed that there were some poach trees outside his window, and lie determined to help himself in the morning. By the time he awoke lh,« building bad moved off down the road, and when tile astonished hoarder looked out of the window he found that the peach trees had been transformed into majestic hluegums.