DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1924, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

IfY TKl.iatltAl’lI —l'ltl.ss ASSN., COl'Vll loit r

A DIA'OIU K CASK. ( lIIIISTt lII'KCII. Sept. •_>. The hearing ol the divorce suit

brought l.y Thyr/.a Louisa Cain againsl her hiisliaud. Kduard trancis Henry Cain, in which i lie husband alleged that a trap was set lor litm., mis concluded before .lusliie Adams and a jury of twelve in the Supren:" Court to-day. a dci ivo nisi being grained. IVi 11inner alleged that her liiisiianil, Uho is a Customs’ officer. miscoiiducted himself in llagley Park, on .March (I. with a woman whose name was not siated in the jietitioii. Cain admitted meeting the woman in the Park, hut stall'll I hat she had offi'ri'd to -uptily him with information idiout opium smuggling, and that there was no n'Jscotiduol. ciioiirs girl pfilnf.il WANGANFI. Sept. -.

F\( il.'liietit wa- caused during the p‘rformalie ' oi tlie "Cay I’arisiiine t,,.night by the Amateur Dramatic Company. Miss Lily Dnrhy. one <>f the chorus girls, came in contact with a hurtling gas jet. winch sd lire to her dress, she was painfully burned about the neck and shoulders, and had to he conveyed to a private hospital. Ihe progress of the play, however^u a* not interfered with. X.Z. BROADCASTING.

WKI.LINGTON. September 2

Air A. F. Ala 1 in. of Levin and Co., who lias just iet ui mil Iriun a visit to America, complains that insufficient New /"aland new- i- received | cr wire, loss on the ships approaching the Dominion. although tic (lovernnietit some time ago de ided ti» hale a "Daily Vi'iis" summary broadcasted. Commenting thereon, the Postti aster. General says that ileus i- hroadcasted from Auanui hi arrangement for publication on the I'ninn Company ships, and arrangements ui 11 he made for this to lie used on other vessels as uell. Mr Coates | nint- out that the New Zealand scheme of broadcasting nows has been I renounred hy those capable of judging as admirable and sensible. A New Zealander writing from America says that many of the broadcasting stations there are closing down, hut the few remaining are giving good services.