DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TEI.ECRAni —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

A DOUUTKI) .STORY. W'ANOAXUr. .Julv 23.

Ccorge Cut Illicit Turnbull. who has heen an inmate of the local hospital since 2ot|i. .Iniie, snlferitlg from n broken jaw. declares he was attacked by tlitee men ill a dark street a.; Tailmpe and battered into tin insensible condition and robbed of JC.’IS. The police have been inquiring lint Hie ali'air is sliroutletl in mystery and they are inclined >o think there is another reasni for the broken jaw. BANKHCUT'S DISCHARGE DECLINED. WELLING'! OX. July 23. The (thief Justice to-day declined to grtmt the discharge front bankruptcy of Janus Ft user. The Official Assignee consitleretl that tt forger dividend should he paid.. Ihe bankrupt was a restaurant keeper anil was hard hit during the 1918 epidemic. when lii.s business was closed down. He then went down h.iil by horse racing and drinking.

llis Honour said that he could not grant a discharge to a man who had spent his creditors’ money on horserating. In the old days he .would never have got a discharge. The discharge would lie .suspended for three years, and if the dividend recommended l iy the Assignee was paid by them, a discharge would he granted.

(MUD FALLS FROM TREK. BLENHEIM. J til v 28,

When collecting firewood, a little girl named Agnes Brown, of (Jrovetow it climbed a willow tree to break oil' dead btamhes. She Jell from a considerable heigh!, and struck a projecting branch, which indicted a fttrgc wound in tin l abdomen. The child was alone at the time, hub her screams attracted attention, and she was hurried to a private hospital, where she underwent an operation. She is progressing satisl'nctnrilv.

RIVAL UNION DISPUTE. DUNKDIN. July 28.

Ihe Otago Rugby Union has issued a writ against the Forliury Hark Trotting Clnh, the Dunedin Coursing Cluh and the New Zealand Football League to prevent Fiifhtiry Dark Orntmd being used for the League Match New Zealand v. Fuglish visiting team oil August Dili. The ca-e will probably be heard in the Supreme Court on Thittsday next. The Forhttry Hark ( lull Inis leased the park to the Otago Htlgliy Union, with a condition that the Coursing Cluh has the right to use it for three days during the season. The Coursing Cluli has u 5,.,! tin* ground on two days this year and has entered into an agreement to let the ground the third day to the Hughy League. The Otago Hughy Union holds that the Coursing Club has not right to make such a transfer.

AU( KLAN'D THAOFDV. AUCKLAND, Jttlv 28

At the impiest on the Oaths, llw Doctor staled that Mis Doth still'erod from nervous trouble. Imt he did mil consider her a subject lor an institution. though he knew that in June she had attempted suicide hy cutting her wrists with a razor.

A nurse who had hern enpaped for three weeks said that neither the Ihie-

ter nor Mr Hath had rei|iiOstrd her to keep the deceased under coni i n tin I nhxrvaliee.

The Coroner read a letter in which the deceased woman said: —"I cannot let my dear Harold stiller. I wish t could take them all with me.” A verdict was returned of suicide while insane, and that, while in that condition, she killed Harold.

ZOO I’OIHONINdS. AR'KI.ANI). .Inly L’A

Detectives arc Pinki ii’4 a keen search I'm- tile culprit, nr t-ulpri t>, rcsp«msihle for llic dastardly ilesl ruction of animals in ilie Auckland Zoo. Durin;' tlie past moilili ch'ld animals, nil valuable specimen-, Mere pnismieil li.v what appears ir> liave keen an arsenical preparatien. and nl tlit* nuinker seven died wit liin I'rum I- to lt‘> hours after the adiiiinistratinn nl. the poison. ihe small mandrill, alter an ox perieiiee, recovered its lile liaviiie hceii saved hy prompt measures on the part of the Zoo attendants, who administered an emetic. The other victims were two agoutis, two -emirates, two (odadi hahoolis. ami a zebra mare. Portions ol the hodies were examined hy Mr A. darker, analy-t. of I’oiisoiihy. who in several instances found arsenic in poisonous (plant it ies. Moreover, the arsenic was coloured in the way that is customary with arsenical preparations, such as weed killer, and similar mixtures frequently n-ed in "ardenino. In the ca-e of tlm zebra. there was found a certain amount nl caustic matter uhiili is usually associated with arsenic in alkaline bode- to l«omote a solution. There is reason fur siispectiip; tliaC he poisonine of the animals wits more .anion than mischievous; in fact that t was an act of malice. The poison ias apparently, administered in small piantities on each occasion during i"ek-e„ils. The agoutis were the first ictiins, hoth dying ahoiit the same ime in' one weelc. A week later the .(■ill ieat. ' sickened violently and died, to ill species appeared to have heeil toisoued almost simultaneously. 1 1,0 • mall quaint mandrill was the next •election of the prisoner, hater one ,f the Oeladi l.ahooiis died siiddenlj tud mysteriously in the rheii the zebra. and last <d ='ll the second baboon. Ml throti'ih the peried the greatest possible .are was taken in re*™} jcoding of nil 'he animals, from the i,u option of the Zoo the method of feeding and the selection of food have heeil exceptionally caret ill. an have I .ecu varied out under seientif.e supervision.