DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

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BRILLIANT .METEOR. BLENHEIM. July 15.

A meteor of extraordinary bounty and brilliance was observed in the direction of the. AA ither Hills at. about, five minutes to eight last night. Those who witnessed the flight of the lier.v mill, with a streaming tail, declare that it was a wonderful s] eetacle. Although the night was brightly moonlight, the meteor Jit up the hill still more brightly as it: descended. Ihe meteor travelled from east to west and seemed to reach the earth among • lie foothills behind, and to the east of It isl wood town.

N.Z. AT WK.MRf.KY I*A LAI KIISTOX N.. July 15. Great publicity has lately been given to the fact that tile New Zealand Pavilion at Wembley, as an advertisement of the potentialities of the Dominion had utterly tailed to reach the expectations of visitors and the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce to-night decided to ask the Government to investigate these I teely-eii-ciliated reports. The President of the Chamber (Mr 11. L. Young) emphasised the serious effects an unworthy display would have on the Domini and lie urged immediate steps to see the exhibits placed in the Pavilion should do justice to the country they represented. Another member declared that it the statements, as published, were true, a great injustice had been done to the Dominion.

DAIRY PRODFCI'

WELLINGTON. July H

The New Zealand Producers’ Co-op-erative Marketing Association's cabled market report dated London. July 11 111, is as follows :

Rutter —The market is quiet. (.Imitations: New Zealand salted |S(is per ewt, occasionally HH unsalled 20-1 s : Australian Hi's to IS Is; Argentine misaltcd IS Is to HH: Irish ISIls; Danish “Ills: F.sthomiaii. His to Hbs; Latvian. H'ls to ISH; Siberian 150 s to

Cheese The market is steady. Quotations; New Zealand whit®, 92* to tils !M*r 1-wl. coloured. 00s to 02s ; Canadian (both colours) 02s to o!s.. The weal her remains extremely hoi. which is causing a big increase m shrinkage.

RAILWAY ENQUIRY HOARD. WELLINGTON. July 15

Mi- Gilmour, Secretary to the Railway In.,.dry Board, stated to-day that the Minister of Railways had extended the date hy which the Hoard was required bv the order of reference to report, from July HI to August P- lbadded that the Hoard expected to complete its report early in August. Iho Held had adjourned in order to eunl.le the silting “f the Arbitration Court in 'AVestlnud and Alarlhouroiigii. which lias been twice postponed, to lie completed. MAN’S DEATH. due to neglect. TIMARI’. July 15. |„ refrence to (he death of John Beattie, an up-country station hand, who died suddenly at Pleansant 1 mnt o„ Monday, the medical evidence at the inquest wa» that the decease, s.i _ IVled from toxaemia, as the res,ill of strangulated hernia, and that it he had had medical, assistance m time he would not have died.

fngine driver severely INJURED.

AYAIROA. July Hi

A married man. Frank Frost, engine driver at the Public AAorks Department ballast pit at the Tahaciim the thighs. Tie was removed to the hospital. It is surmised ho was caught in the hauling winch operating the return of the empty drag woop. BUSINESS ALAN’S TRIAL CHRISTCHURCH. July To. William Gordon Hutchison described -,s -i eitv business man. of the Aditiiisinc ugeiu-v of Gordon Hutchison J [ td appeared at the Magistrates Court to-day.' charged that he had stolen a ladv’s bisevcle. valued at --•. Accused, for whom Mr Sergeant appeared. elected to he tried by jury In a statement made to the polite. Hutchison said the bicycle had been in the building where Ids oHice was situated. for souio weeks, and. thinking » belonged to his tvpiste, he took it home,

Eivdcnco was given that Hutchison ),-j very good business, and was not short of money. Ho was committed for trial, small hail being allowed.

OBITUARY. THAMES. July 10.

Charles Judd aged 87. founder of the first foundry in Thames, which ho established ill 1808. His firm constructed most of the iron lighthouses on the New Zealand coast.

SOLICITOR’S LAPSE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 10.

At the Supreme Court this morning. Lionel Lancelot Hitehings. a solicitor, was found guilty of failing to account for £ls sterling to his employers. He was admitted to probation for 3 years.

END INK BLOWN OU T OF CAR AUCKLAND. July 10

When .1. Preston, driver of a motor lorry, was cranking bis engine an explosion lifted tbe engine bodily and twisted it right round. Preston was thrown against a wall with considerable force, but escaped serious injury. The engine is damaged beyond repair. It is supposed a quantity of gunpowder bad been placed in tbe engine. DANGER OF BENZINE. BLENHEIM, July 10. James Mills, a returned soldier, aged 15. was badly burned at Pieton to-day. 11 is brother-in-law was lighting the kitchen lire, and picked up wlmt lie thought was a kerosene tin to start the blaze. It was, however, a benzine tin bull lull, which exploded, and the llamiii.g contents poured over .Mills, who was standing close liy. The man ran to a water-hole and jumped in but was very badly burned. lie was removed to the hospital, where lie lies in a serious condition.

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. WESTLAND COUNTY .MOTOR BYE-LAW.

WELLINGTON, July Ifi

Judgment was given by the Full Court, in the ease ol Nicholson against the Chairman and Councillors of the County of Westland. This was a motion under the Bye-Laws Alt, 1910, to quash the bye-law ol tbe AAcsllaiul County Council relating to motor vehicles. The court decided to amend the bye-law by altering the definition of motor-ear and by making eel tain additions to those parts ol the by-law dealing with license lees. The npplnant was allowed 95 costs. This sum in practice is always awarded in such eases, together with disbursements.