DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEOItAPII— -PRESS ASSN., COPYRIOnT. CLAY BIRD CHAMPION. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 0. The New Zealand Clay Bird Championship was tired yesterday and won oy R. .Marshall Gray (Palmerston. North) with a full score of 21. T. Kintht-r of Spring,ston and R. E. McI llwrirk, of Timarti, were runners up, with 20 each. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. BALANCE TWO MILLION’S. WELLINGTON, August A. The Public Accounts for the .June quarter show that the total receipts wejc £11,001.102. including the balance brought forward of £I.JJAI.7J3; ordinary revenue fA.22A.70A, territorial a, 10,0(12. The expenditure totalled £7.312.171 leaving a, balance of £1.222.328 against which there .are treasury hills outstanding to the- allloii]i, of £OOO,OOO. The Public Works e.\| ciiditine inr.udi'd. railways construction £183,770, additions to open lines £120,3(1A. roads £ 11-1,200. telegraph extension £120.01-1. Treasury Bills redeemed totalled half a million, leaving a balance of just over two millions. GUILTY OF THEFT. I'AhJIKItSTOX X.. August 11. At the Supreme Couit. Herbert Harold Payne, charged with breaking, entering and theft at Daiincvirke, was found guilty and sentence was deferred till to-morrow. The ease for ilio Crow'ii was that accused was i'oiind asleep on the | remises, the glass door i-f which was broken enough to admit a man's body. Accused was wearing an overcoat, the property of the linn in whose premises he was found. Accused addressing the Jury denied committing the crime and said he did not remember anything about the affair. He laid been drinking and gambling during the day at Daiincvirke. the honey market. CHRISTCHURCH, August A.

Au address on “The Importance of the Local Market to Beekeepers." was given by Mr 0. H. Sargeaut, Gove.u. ment- Apiary Instructor, before iiiem--1 cts of the Canterbury Beekeepers' Association, on Saturday night. AI" P. Jack, president of the A'soeiation was in the chair. The state of the New Zealand market, said the speaker, was most misatisfactory from the producers’ point of view . The past season, esjieeiallv in the Smith Island, had not been a good one, yet merchants were oll’eriitg only a small price for honey. Though there had been an increase in the supply during recent years the demand had net increased proportionately. Honey was not au article of diet in as many homes as it should he, while in hotels it was seldom, if ever seen. Despite seme disappointments, growers had obtained a fairly good price for exported honey, hut the same could not he said for the local market. Unfortunately tile storekeeper would not oiler a fair priie. In the old days the amateur -beekeeper had exchanged hi. product with the .'tnrekeet.-er for other goods, and this, perhaps had had something to do with the attitude c the storekeepers. Some growers mil 1.-nrtered tlu-ir honey. Another enemy of tin- conime-cial licek-.c) cr was the careless person who sold his ] rodnel in dirty tins. An amendment to the Act in the direction of empowering inspectors to inspect extractors would lof benefit to till- up-to-date apiarist. ’Plie beekeepers had improved conditions in connexion with the export trade, and there- was no reason w n local conditions could not. lie similarly improved. Unless something were none in tin- nature of control. <oi the lines adopted by the Irnilgioucr:-. lie -aw veil little ehali-e -d an improvement in the local money market. The beekeepers were not profiteers, hilt tht-v wanted a fair price for their prodint and the prevention of utider-sel-nllg.

TOTE PEHAHTS. IT .MARI'. Aug. A. The Timarti Presbytery to-day passed a resolution protesting against the Government granting any more tntalisator permits. CONSTANTIN I CASE. AUCKLAND. Aug. A. In tlii- Supreme Court, tin- jury alter |A minutes deliberation loiind Constantin! not goiltv. Air Paterson, for the Crown, said he wished to communicate with the Attor-ney-General before proceeding with the other charges hroitgnt against the accused. ]| is Hon said that lie thought that it was a ease in which the Crown could enter a nolle prosequi regarding the remaining charges. All-used was released on bail.

A STRIKE. TIM All I'. Aug. b. This morning 15 mechanics ol the Temukn Insulator Works struck, owing to a disagreement regarding nay. MRS WIIA 1.1.'S EVIDENCE. WELLINGTON. Aug. (i. At th - Karims trial Mrs Whal! said she went I" Palmerston North with Karnes and there met W hall who threatened that if she did mil return to him he would throw himself under the train. Sim win : > Auckland with him ami there lie thrashed her. His Honour: What ha- this evidence had to do with the crime alleged. Was it. jrivcti as a motive of the crime.' Tim Crown Prosecutor : This is an attempt to get the sympathy of the jury and hlackeit the character "f the man who was ilead and not here to answer. The evidence was continued on these line-. for till* accused stilting that he was endeavouring to rotute the •suggestion that Whall was fighting for his wife. However, he said. it. seemed an extraordinary wav of doing it. He would not stun the evidence going to the iur.v, lint the procedure was most improper. Counsel is new addressing the ( ottrt. A DOCTOR FINED. CIIRISTCMriICH. Aug. 0. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning Dr P. I”. McEvev, ot Wellington, was fined IM and costs tor shooting game out of season. It was remarked that the circumstances were had because the defendant tried to conceal his identity.