DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. -NO RIFLE TEAM. WELLINGTON, May 14. The Chairman of the National Rifle Association (If. Marshall) states it has been found impossible to secure a team to uphold New Zealand at the Empire Rifle meeting hi .July next. ‘ The grant most kindly offered by the ■Government and appreciated by the Association was C10IH). As the cost of each man would run well into three figures, even with the grant, and apart from lost pay, a majority of those asked. find they cannot go. As those who are unable to make the trip comprise Simmonds. Xeilson. West. Roots. Masefield. Crnxtoii. 1.. l.ovedav. Hunt, .lames Feast. E. Ballinger, I[. Donald. Blackwood and Duncan, it is obvious, said .Mr Marshall that any team going would not lx- a trulv representative one. The only men prepared to accept positions in teams were. Niehol. Piper. Veale. Gillie!;. Bolton and Mills, and disappointment is naturally felt in rifle shooting circles.

MAN DIES FROM INJURIES. AUCKLAND, May 14 A. Stroat, aged 59, died to-day from injuries received vesterdav when a horse bolted down Mountain Road. POWER SCHEME. BLENHEIM, May 13. Following on representations from Kaikoiira that that district should he included in any provincial hydro-elec-tric scheme, the Marlborough Power Boa I’d last night dei ided to defer filial determination of the scheme to place before ratepayers, to enable the Kaikourit people to submit facts and figures in support of their contention that with the inelusion of Kaikoiira it would he financially practicable to undertake the development of the Clarence river, in preference to the cheaper hut less powerful AYaihopai scheme.

MOTOR FATALITY. HASTINGS. May 15. Arthur Room, a restaurant proprietor, met with a fatal accident in llerotauuga Street last evening, as the result of a motor ear collision. Ho sucriimlied to his injuries this morning. His wife is on a voyage to visit England.

A DIVORCE SUIT. PALMERSTON X.. May 15. A defended divorce' action that i expected to last several days, colli mencod at the Supreme Court. Tin petitioner, Percy Phillip Stevens, auctioneer of Fielding, is seeking a dissolution of his m.-irriage with Alice Juliet Stevens on the gmun- 1 ' alleged adultery with John G. Blackwell, a taxidriver of Mat-ton. and also with Neil Whisker, a railway employee of Hamilton, formerly of Palmerston North. Further grounds arc that the parties have been separated for more than three years. The respondent and corespondent deny the a llega tines of adultery. Respondent admits tin* separation which she alleges to lie due to the conduct of petitioner.

Counsel fur petitioner said it was alii ged the respondent committed adultery with Blackwell at. Marlon about Mareh. April anil May. 1923 ami with Whisker about .lune. .Inly and August, 1923 at Palmerston North.

NEW ZEALAND FINANCE. WELLINGTON. May 15. The Consolidated revenue account for the quarter ended 31>t. March, shows the total receipts were £15.797.159 (including balance £5.117.713 brought forward at the beginning of the quarter) compared with £14,330.779 for the c irresp-mding quarter of the previous year (including balance £3.110,59-1).

The ordinary receipts for the quarter inst ended were: Custom- C 1.008.07!»: Stamp and Death Duties. £BBA.812: I’o-t and Telegraph. CAA 1.21 <i: 1.-unis Tax. £70.834: Income Tax. £3.213.1)113; lleer Duty. £188.480: Railway.;. £2.008.303; Begi-t rat ion and oilier lees. “PA,707; Marine. £28.1)81; Interest oil Public Moneys Cl 72.1 AO; Local Bodies’ Loan') Act. :C1(!.3A0; Rents of Buildings. £11.224; Tourist and Health Resorts. £2I.AS(i: .Miscellaneous. £3A.()3(i. The total ordinary was CO.304.01)1 compared with C0.532.51A for tlie correspomling quarter last year. 'l’lie exnemliltire fur tin* jia.-t quarter was £10,842.110, leaving a balance of £l.O-31.713 riniipareil with an expenditure of £S.01)3.08!) a year ago when there was a balalire of £A.O3i.080.

MAORI WOMAN DIES AT I<IA. AICKLAND. May IA. A Maori woman named Mohurea Taitranga Mahaua, died at Clevedon. ag.-d 10A.