DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAm—PRESS ASSN., COFYRIGHT. j STUD CATTLE. PALMERSTON NTH., Juno ‘JO The first annual sale of Mr 11. ]{. Green’s “Oakview” Friesians realised Cfllod, nineteen heifers averaging 100 guineas, 17 bulls (all from untested dams), 70 guineas, and five cows 48 guineas. There was keen competition. Top prices for heifers were:— Gs. Hose Posc-lt Three of Oakview— H. G. Tcdeastle (Victoria) ... JOO C'olantha Springtime of Oakview—ll. G. Tedcastle ... ’2OO Jesie Monona C'olantha of Oakview—G. A, Marchant and Son (Cardiff) ... ... ... 170 Minima Johanna of Dellhursl —A Morratt (Westport) ... ... -07 A hull, Echo Poseh of Oakview, was sold for 1150 guineas to 11. G. Tedcitstlc. Purchases were made on behalf of John Urown (Newcastle, X.S.W.) and Crendley’s I.id. (Queensland). At" the ■ aie of pedigree Jerseys on baba If of Mr S. 11. Lancaster (Palmerston North; a two-vear-old heifer, Fox’s Host Sultana, fetched the highest price, Ifflj guineas.

THREF. MONTHS’ GAOL. DUNEDIN. Juno 20.

.1 oil ii I lea lev was charged on remand at ilic l-’oiioc* Court to-day with the ih.'ll on June t; In-t of a motor-ear lyre and a rim valued at C(>. the property of George Alfred Ltiinh. He was further charged with theft on the following day of a motor-ear tyre rim and cover of a total value of l - d, the property of Kairburn stud Henderson, Ltd. Tlio .Magistrate. Mr J. R. Ilartholonietv, S.M., said that accused had stated that lie was drunk at the time the ihelts took place and that it was a matter of impulse. It was, however, a deliberate ease of sneak thieving, the man going around taking tyres off cars standing in the street. Accused would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and at the end of that period lie would be detained lor reformative tract meat for a period of twelvo months. A conviction was entered m respect to the second information.

CiIIINKSK UNOIXHKIt HOBHKO. AUCKLAND. June 2d

A camphor wood chest, containing about £o() worth of clothes and Coo in money was stolen from a Chinese engineer on the Admiralty tanker Nuouhi on the day the vessel arrived at Auckland. It is thought the box was thrown overboard and that the contents are still aboard the Nucttla, hut detectives were tumble to traco the clothes of money, or obtain any clue to the thief.

brick laniiDixo gutted. WKT.LTXGTOX. .Tlino '2 A. A liii. k building in Singer’s Avenue. c,||' Willis Street, wits gutted by fire ibis morning. They were occupied by Johnson. cabinet-maker, and .Meyer and Kean, engravers, and others. A JUXAWAY HOUSE. DINEDIN, .June 28. A .sensational, runaway took place today when a horse attached to a deliterv van bolted along I’rinces Street, to wards one ol the 1 busiest paits ot tilt i iiy. The horse swerved up High St. and the van crashed into it telegraph post outside the Grand Hotel. A woman. Mis Muntleuo, was knocked down, but was not seriously injured, and a man named Kropp, hotel porter, aged about :17, was attack by the shaft and seriously injured about the head and face, lie was removed to the hospital. where an operation was'performed. and lie is now reported to he pro-arc-dug satisfactorily. SOrTHi.AXD KUKKZIXG Tit AUK. IXVKRCAUGII.L, dune 2d. During the freezing season just closed, the Southland Works killed ■111,827 sheep. 3-fi 1,888 lambs and 2,127 cattle. 1 lie sheep killed increased by 0233, and the cattle hv .'lB7 while the lambs decreased hy 28.diG over the ligures for the previous year. This, no doubt, was due to a number of lambs being railed Xorth. where many Southland, lambs leave the works branded l’rime Canterbury. It is estimated that approximately 8(1.000 head of stock from Southland, principally lambs, were killed in Northern works during the present season. 'I he position is icgarded as a serious one for Southland, XKW CAIiIXKT MIXI.ST HR. WKI.I.IXGTOX, dune 22. M,- .). Kitchener 'Wahabi) will move the Address-in-Hoply in the House of Representatives. The seconder will he .Mr d. I.inklater (Manawatu). Two new members ol the Legislative Council are to he appointed scion. Tin* announcement regarding the appointment of a m w member of the Cabinet may be expected either on the eve of the opening of J’arliainont, of soon afterwards. It i' expected that the session will la-l I ill about the end of October.