DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

MY TEI.KORArn—IIIK3S ASSN., COPYRIGHT. lIIT WITH HIDING CROP. AUCKLAND, Sept. IL’.

At the Police Court, a married woman was lined £:j for assaulting a police sergeant. The officer stated that accused and another woman rode their horses on the footpath in Karani'iiluipe Road to shelter from tile rain. He told the defendant that she would have to move her mount into the roadway, hut she regarded him disdaindiilly, and replied

“When I mil ready.” Dll witness replying that she was breaking a by-law and he would have to take her name unless she moved on. defendant became healed and said. ‘Don dare tu speak to me. you cad." She reiterated her refusal to move or give her name. Witness then reached for the horse’s bridle, intending to lead it into the road when defendant dealt him a vicious blow with a riding cron, saying: ••llovv dare you touch a lady's horse'.” She then cantered oil to regain her companion, who had discreetly withdrawn during the argument. Defendant was ills a lined £1 for a breach of the by-law. ASSAULT AND BATTERV. DUNEDIN. September IT.

At the Police Court. Charles Leonard l.eainon Hawkins was remanded till P’ridav on a charge ut assaulting. Maurice Brady, a barman at the Grand Hotel, so as to < a use a: Cua! kcilily liana. The ] ole e stated that when Brady was ejecting accus'd, the latter drew a knife and drove it clean through his hand. Dn other charges ol drunkenness and use of I'hseeiie language the aeei'sed was lined. FINED CIO ODOTIKI, Sept. lit.

At the police emit, Herbert Seymour Rowe pleaded guilty to live charges of supplying female natives with Ii.|u ll r an I was lined CIO and costs. AT WHITE ISLAND. ODOTIKI. Sept. EL

The preliminary work of the exploitation of fertilisers at While Maud are completed. The rout tailor, .1. Kerr, has erected huts on the south-western corner, which is a safety zone, and has constructed a jetty between the lints and the landing place. and made a road hen teen the lulls and jelly faeilitat iug

eoinni!inic:iti(i!is. The handle of a shovel was discovered at Mathirs Dealt nor i> believed to he a relic of tic disaster of I'M I. CORONER’S FINDING. PALMERSTON N.. Sept. HI. At the impest. >■ nn >u nil;:; the death of .h'lin Kenneth Da ii ii oma n. aged 7 years, who died from injuries received hy a fall from a chute in tic children's playing area at Terrace kind Dark, a verdict was re! til led of dentil from a I rail me of the skull, ratl'rd l y Inlling "II a chut". The ( omicr 1 'id he had iic p-" led t lie i hulc end i • "I opinion I hat it «as not afe tor children's in—. lie t! inight the aotlioritie- should remove il or | !:ne a responsible person' in control. A MOTOR SMASH. PLUNK ELM, September l;L The danger of the practice of several motor i ill's driving i loselv one behind

i the other was illustrated « hen a string - of ears in which the Marlborough ' Hughy team was being conveyed to > Knikoiira, struck trouble jo-i before real bin;' Seddon, and. as a result of i I lie aieideui, one ear lad to lie left and Seddon in a disabled condition., Three ears containin'.' fool haliers trav- • idled down an incline oil to the Awatere I'.ridge. and ills* as they turned on to the bridge, they suddenly were confronted with a motor lorry loaded with timber. The lorry was proceeding towards .‘•’eddon, hut the driver had sto|i|ied ill elder to inlillst the load. Ii was inline,sihle In pull up at such short notice, mi l the Hist ear crashed into the rear of the t iieher carrier. The ears behind liiiliined each other as they came on In I lie bridge, all three being involved in the (oMisii.il. \oII. »dy v.as serioii'ly hurt. The damage to the .lirst ear is extensive. AI'CKI.AND nOIIIIKIJV. ACCKI.AND, Sent, inker I I. Unrglars are still active here. Clark-

Store at Xorthente being entered during Friday night mid tohaeeo worth ten pounds stolen. An unsuccessful attempt was made in force a bootmaker’s shop adjoining tin' nlner. I.Ki; IHiOKK.V. CHIMSTCIIVKCH. Sept. Id. Harold Hell, the Selwyn and Canterhur.v representative Huekev player has been admitted to the Christ-bur -h Ilmpi lal with a broken leg. lie received a knock on the -l"n while playing i; a tournament i ii T-fsday. S« p- 1 temher -Jud. hut thought v little I It Oil the following fh'l-. d.iv he I played again, though -uli’em’g a greet | deal of pain, lie took the fiei : for the final round on Saturday. September (■tli. hut. alter a few minutes toll.ip- ■ ii ami had In In- --ariied nil. A re ma-kable future of aceideut is that Hell remiiuied noh-.v for almost live (*a\-. and played two hock »v in.-itell ■-. if -cite «>! tie.- f.-e-l tliat Ills shin hone was badly naeked.