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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1924, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The billowing candidates were sueeesslul in passing their music examination in liudiiiicnts of .Music, under tin Associated Board of .Music:-- Lucy M. Dale, Jean Houston, l-'lora MeCnskili ■ teacher, .Miss M. Davies).

We regret to record the death of Mr(•'agliardi. wife ol Mr .1. (iagliardi ol the Public Works Department stall', which took place at Palmerston Ninth this morning. Deceased was a daughter of Mrs S. Jack, of Hokitika, and formerly of Woodstock. She leaves :• bereaved husband ami family of iwe daughters and one son. a mother, tlinv sisters (Mr- A. (Irouf'ky ami Mrs i'. (irotifsky ol Hokitika, and Mrs lam of Christchurch), ami two brothers. (Alexander in Deiinistoii and Andrew at nreseiil undergoing treatment at Christchurch).

Responsibility liir the outbreak ol lire at tile Reiiw ieklo.vu School oil Tliitr'dav morning lias been traced by tile police to a live-year-old lad. a pupil ill the sc hool. - lutes the Blenheim correspondent of the **l.ylti-lton Tillies." Conslalile D. Clowe investigated the

ease. and. alter gnc'l ioning the suspected infant, elicited the information that In- had been in the school grounds alMiut 7.Ill) that morning playing about with matches. He struck a mat'll and poked it up the end of a drain pipe, which had been previously stuffed up with old newspapers. Whether or not the child realised the seriousness of bis net it is ddlicult to say. but lie was only too ready to give the policeman a demonstration of what lie bad done on the morning of the lire, lie was .-supplied with a match, ipiite casually si ruck it on the building and would have again put in into the hole formed by the piping had lie not been Stopped.

At Westport, the Magistrate, Mr 11. P. I.awry. was occupied a good part of Tuesday morning and a!teriiooii hearing a ease in which Robert Edwards claimed £43 Bis from Harry Mather for loss of wages and special damages arising out of an assault on the lPtli. June at Millerton. At the time of the alleged offence. Millerton mine was not working, but Mather and Derbyshire were engaged in erection of a building for Thomas Guest. Edwards arrived on the scene and he alleged that Mather told him to clear out and threw a piece ot -lin. by —in. timber, wliicli caught him below the shoulder Made and rendered him unlit to work for 22 days. Evident-e ill support of plaintiff was given by several witnesses. Hie defendant, in bis version of the allair. said when Edwards arrived a dog j unwed up on him and Edwards told the dog to “get to - _ out of it." Mather then told Edwards to clear out. He (defendant' was working tip on the roof lilt, high and cutting off a piece of -1 by 2 threw it down, and unintentionally so tar as he was concerned, hit plaintiff. The Magistrate held that defendant's action was inconsistent with his statements and convicted him and ordered him to pay £l3 2s tor loss ot wages £7 10s special damages and costs £ll ■ls Bd. a total of £.14 17s 2d.