DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

I BY TELEORAPII—I'ItESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT, S.S. INGA. REACHES MELBOURNE. GREYMOUTH, June 27 Advice was received yesterday afternoon hy the local agent for the owners that the steamer Inga, which had licen overdue since .Saturday last, had readied Melbourne yesterday afternoon all well.

HAMILTON. June 27. At the inquest concerning the death o! a youth, Maurice Enoch Ansel, Mm 'Mis killed on May Gth. through being knocked from a bicycle hy a taxi driven hy Joseph Hallo, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The Coroner added that the fatality was line either to the excessive speed of .Halle ,s car, or to Dalle not having kept a proper look out, or alternatively, if he had seen the Imy and had lailed to use ordinary care hy reducing speed and veering to the left.

DAMAGES FOR MISREPRESENTATION-

HAMILTON. June 27. At the Supreme Court, Ait ken Leonard Flygei and his wile, Grace Flyger. fanners at Pukuhia, claimed I lrom Percy Arthur Hermann, a slinrc- ( broker of Auckland £3.100 damages lor alleged misrepresentation over the •sale of a farm. It was alleged that I He! maim gave plaintiff to understand 1 when putting tile deal through, that I the Inrin would carry many more rows than it was found possible to tarry. 'I he* Jury returned a verdict that defendant was guilty and awnrded £lOOl damages. His Hoik hit adJoin nod the ease for furt her consideration under rule 230, leave to move lor a. new trial within fourteen days being granted. HOTEL burnt. WANGANUI, June 37 W'aitotara Hotel, of sixteen rooms, was completely destroyed hy fire at 10 | o’clock last night. No lire lighting apparatus were in the township anil the flames were fanned hy a strong northerly wind, which reduced the place to ashes within half an hour. Had the wind been in the opposite direction the township would have suffered severely. -WAN BURNED. GISBORNE, June 27 Alfred Scott, a station hand at Han gaioa, whilst adiu-tmg a gas general iug point, struck a match and became enveloped in ilamcs. being severely burned, lie was admitted to the hospital.

YOUTH SUICIDES. AUCKLAND. June 27

Lawrence Wyatt, aged 1!). formerly employed on a farm at Omaha, and in the hospital here for heart trouble, caused b.v anile rlieiiin.ili-m. was found at 3 o'clock this morning dead, having cut his throat with a razor, lie had not given any evidence of a suicidal tendency. Despite hi- iniirmity lie was generally of a cheerful disposition.