DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

dy Tin.r.cuArn—rnKSs a urn - ., copyiugiit. ■O'A'EX YEARS I! AI! I) TIM A Hl’. An;j. !). At (In. 1 Supreme U'oirt to-day before • In-tic.- Acliiiiis. lorit-k Howies, loiiml guilty on Thursday on live . barges ol iinn.iltir.il ollViii t“s list boys was ~i-nir-<| tu seven years im(i ri 11 ■n< ■ 111. AVI I ALL M IT! DEI! CASK. TEN VKAHS l-Oli MAXSL.UT IIITEi!. WKI.I.IN( !T()X. Ant;:. !). ■I. .-s• |> 1 1 Bullies. I• hiiit| guilty ol man--laughter in foiitii'f-tioii with tin- <•«•;!t!i of AYalter Jo!,n Wliall on I-:. .May. was ,-i*ntc• ni'i-i! in t• •11 years with liar.l laI mr. Counsel referred to tile prism,el's good war record. ll.* liad i.e-.'ii reiei ted in Attstrnlii. Inn lead umie to England and served at the front, being wounded and gas.-ed. Tln-re "as no jiremodiation. and ha was of good character.

Justice MneOregnr -ail lie |.ri-'iner had entire'l away the wife of deece-’d. and deceased naturally resented it. and more than onro thrashed prisoner. The jure had taken a lner.-ilul view that

the prisoner had a-ted nuclei- proven a I ion. .None the le.-s he had killed i fell IW Iming. ’I lie 11 - c * ef the hnife must he tint an end to, and it " a.- hiplain duly to iullic t a .substantial penalty. Ii prisoner had linen an .1-1.-; man In- may have ha-1 t" intli-t inipris lunn-nt for life.

.-I’I.ITTINC A NOTE. oISROENK. Aug. ft. A middle-aged man was remanded on a charge of splitting and uttering k-ii shilling hank of Elightnil iide. XEAV HEBRIDES. AA'KI.I.INOTON, August s. •'The present arrangement slicmM not he allowed to euiitinue,'' said the I ’ri nic* Minister to-day to a deputation regarding the New Hebrides. "It is an ahomiiuihle state of tilings There i-. only one way oat ol the dicTieiilty. and that is to partition tie- islands and let eac h (inveriimciit. I’rc-neh and l-.i-ili.il. lie gi ven its -liar - in the- New I I •brides, and probably we would gel in very much heller than during recent veal'. "I Iplite agree that the eondominium is an inter failure.” Mr Massey added. "No more stupid agreement was ever entered into in this world limn what was done in regard to the- joint control ol lie- New llehrid.--. and the people at the head of affaires in Ifriiain are

getting very tind of it." Those statements were made by the

Prime .Minister to a deputation which

waited cm him this morning in re,earl to the failure. of the romlotnitiiuni iigreeiiieilt in Iho control ol the N'W ! lehrides.

The deputation represented Presbyterian foreign missions, the Angliejio Hoard of Mission', tile Methodist Missioiiarv Society, the l.oadoii .Missionary Si.eiely, and I lie Wt ilinglon Ministers’ A ,-sin-ia t ion.

Till. Ifev C. .lupp. II livelier ol the Foreign M.'s.snois t ouimiltee ol ill Presbyterian (-’eneral A'scunhly. said that a petit inn had been prepared lor presentation Parliament. sinned by l •:) signatures, pi ii ii i i ups mil- mat the terms of the condominium between l-'rani-e and lirilain were m.I being adhered to, as was common knowledge, thov fell that the condominium agreement should he brought to an end, and suggested that lhe only possible way

out of the present iinsat islaetnr.v slate of affairs was for Britain to have sole control of tile islands. Women were bein'; outraged, illegal rccruiiini' wa" hp-jno carried oil, and generally the whole posiliou SO far as the Halites

were concerned amounted to a slate ol .slavery akin to tin- conditions that c>.isted in the old blaekbii ding days.

ELI lAN RUE El AN. TE AW A.AD. "IT. Angu-t !>. (leorge AA’hipp.'. a young I'iii l-land w;., se'itenecd lo it iiHinth's tnipri

a fanner, Mr Bruce Anderson. Whip liv also punched Constable Doyle when till' latter caught him after hi- alI ..'apt to evade arrest. The police regard Whippy a- a dangerous charaetHe lots been living wit It the district .Maoris, and i- suspected 111 supplying them with kqunr.

,\ eiltioii . story conn" Irom the backblocks l'iic little daughter of a settler had a cat of which she was very fend. Due day during thi- winter tincat commenced l" eottgh and as the day went mi showed every sign ~f eoiisUMipliim. Ihe liitli' girl was hearlI. hut she win determined to -avo her eat and she c niemcn. cl to give pus., dn-.es nf Kidg". the great cough cure. Strange t" -ay pu-- Idled the mixture mil lapped ii up v.illi avidity. A lew days later the cal leased to cough am! now is unite well thanks In 1 1, ~ ..null work <d Kofgo. which is invaluable a- a cough remedy. Kofgo is sold at 2s fid a bottle by I nling eb.'iujs|.. mill -11 ires, ill" whole-ale lilstiitor the Coast being Drill'eii me! Smii li. C reymoii! it. Advt.