DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

nr TF.LEonAPH —muss assn., corjßianT. RAI I.WAY.M EN -11-IIOUR DEMAND. AUCKLAND. Sep. 27. The Newmarket Railway Workshops employees have passed a resolution strongly supporting the forty-four hour weelc. BURGLARY CHARGE. GISBORNE, Sep. 27. A man was discovered last night in the main office of the railway station, to which he had gained entry by break ing a window. He was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with burglary, and was remanded for a week. SUICIDE. PALMERSTON NORTH. Sept. 28. Short lv after seven o'clock on Saturday evening Henry I’enrse Eor.sylh. aged 1-1. a married man with a family if six children, was found hanging from a willow tree in his garden tit. his ri"d:hein e. Main Street East. Deceased was a commercial traveller h,v in-iu-pation. and out of cmphymciit. He had recenty been tieated for a nervous coinld.iint.

A BANKRUPT. WELLINGTON. Sept. 20. The creditors of Geo, Swanson, meat dealer, wove not at till satisfied when his alfairs canto I c'oic the Cilicia! Assignee. That official himself complaincd tliaf the hankrnpt had treated him with I'onteiu] t and alluded to language over the telophue. Tn reply to rpiestionv. Swanson admitted that he Ili'i|uently attended races and had received £121) front a double. His creditors said they had got nine of it. and the Assignee said the bankrupt had to account for Cl 100 in IS months, lie felt very much itic lined to tefer the ease to the Public Pro-ecilter. hut would give the bankrupt a week to prepare a statement which he had so far failed lo do. TN A QUANDARY. WIT.I (INCTON, Sept. 20. 'fhe general ini) rex-ion is that Shcepow'tiet.s will resist any attenil.t to increase the shearing rates Lilt, no official slalenient is available, as the legal p.-dtion is bemg cur. side red. The point is whether if the men do not oll'ei for work, it will constitute a strik.e or whether there can la* no strike till the men have a'(rally begun work.

ERUSTR.ATED. WEI I.INGTON. Sept. 20. A liurglary that would have resulted in heavy loss was frustrated by the nightwatchuiau. n-iting the door cd S: Illicit! 'Ulan’s factory, in Cable Street, well' open at 10.01 ]i.ut. lie entered and disturbed burglars rt work. They had broken through windows anil doors doing mileli damage and had piled at.out a tin ttsaiid puniL worth ol rolls of cloth hy the lift and were -evidently waiting for comrades in arrive with a vehicle. The wat-hman summoned the police, hut th" robbers get away, leaving a jemmy ehind. drouped dead. CIA.MARU. S■•| >t. 20. News reieivi'd from Kokoatna 'tale ,|, I*. Tavlnr. Chairman of North Otago Eat titers’ Co-o|i. Assn., a very oi l imd highly n-neted resi'lent ol Nurl It Otago 1 1 i':0ipeiI dead jit hreakliisl this mot'iiiug. lie was i-> years ol age and was an active mender ol the A. and I'. Assn-iation and Presidioit in III" int*ilee voir.

CYCi.ISTS SEI.ECTED. (Til! ISTCI It IK 'll. Sept. 20. Wright ol I!,-;'!! in lias l> -i ll selecti-d lV North (’anlarliury Cyeltug Union to ompete in the I I ran'. •e||, who made the second fastest Dine i;iy jjs., he sent. I ' Cumpte lias eucreil. paying his own expenses.

( lIAR<TPS of Till'.l'T. ( ! lit IST Cil It'll. Se |l. 2'JDavid William Ui'-li. r. M 18. | leadid guilty, this 11: 'ii.tng to tlie t ol a bi"v le, Tie -nee. he had sold it. to g'd ~. 1 |,, uI t. wife and hi'd were ..Ijb'ljng. f'olu" v, a "IT h"l' charged ui lh having stolen at Trei.tham in Delen.k f P.(2t, tlie sti.ii of £217, the | i-.'i city of .I. lines Trtli e.v. A": used was 1 •maiidel >ll loto 1 !:af"es. Rail v.as teiuse.l.

PKIMiY DISSATISEI K.D. \\ KI.U.XOToN. Kept. 2d. to (!m course of an interview, I'unly wbi rt-l mi.eel lioin the Olympic Dames (~-(|.,y. , omplaincd rather litlerly mulernnig tin- inntrol of boxing at the (Cvu.iij. Caines. Me said it would not have - al islied novices in any other | art „| ibe v. lll Id. Me bad l ' train him- ... J h ;i!|d (•Veil will'll will king ill tile (tvinnasiiim in Paris bad in ").<■ 111 keep lim.* for him. I!.- exiness -.1 the o] iniou that he laid won bis contest v. ill. die l r r- lift man. 'I hurley by a wide margin, blit lie did not receive the de- . i-hio. The American Judge gave him (| .up n|- 111 | oiols bill the other two del ided against him. lie announces bis intention ol joining the ranks >1 1 • ••- lossionnls in the very near future. CU'KK. OF EX PLOSION. AECKJ.AXI). S-ept. 29. Investigations by detectives arc t-. t,.,l t i.-iid to the icnclusien that .he exphision at Avondale totalisat. r was due I i an csea-e of gas. It bad tianspi,vd that Hie doors wive Forced byline.' men who wore the first in airi-, ~ after the ex| lesion. One noticed a sir.-II of gas and turned oil’ the tap at tlm meter. A f.-rCKY ESCAPE. AECKIiAND. Kept. 29. .Inliii Ouincr. aged 29. was admitted l, tlm lios| ilal with injuries from a tall of earth at the gas works. Me was digging in a 1 ii nine feet down, when the" sides rnlln; sod burying him. Me was dug out by other workers. Mis injuries prise a slight injury to hi.knee, bruises and slunk. Tfc is prn-gic-sing favourably.