DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGUAI'II—I'ER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

THE GOV Elt NOIt-G E NEB AL. FA 1{ IvWFLL FUNCTIONS. AYKLT.INGTON, November il. Her Excellency Viscountess Jollicoc and the lion. Lucy Jellicoe returned troll! the South Island this morning. Their Excelclucies and family will leave New Zealand h.v the JLAI.Si Tahiti, which is due to sail for Sydney from Wellington at noon on November 20. A civic farewell is to lie given at the Town Hall, AYellington, on the previous evening. To-morrow their .Excellencies will be present at a Hoy Scout and Girl Guide rally at Newtown Park, and in the evening Cabinet Ministers and their wives will he entertained to dinner at Government House. On Sunday iilterimoii his Excellency will attend a .Masonic .service uL St. .Mark i> Church. His Excellency has airanged to unveil the Terraco School war memorial on Wednesday morning.

Farewell visits will lie paid luring tho week to H.M.S. Dunedin, the AA'ollington Returned Soldiers’ Association s rooms and the Commercial Travellers' Club,

Her Excellency has promised to open the spring show < f the Wellington Horticultural Society on the afternoon of November l!)th.

‘ Prior to his depailure from New Zealand his Excellency will he entertained hv members ol the Wellington and Wellesley Rotary Clubs and by officers of the New Zealand permanent forces. Addresses ol 1 a rev el I will he presented by the St. John Ambulance Association and by the Relumed Soldiers’ Association

‘•Don’t let down on the .sea sendee

said the Governor-General to-iight. “whether it he the great mercantile marine upon which the prosperity of the Empire depends, «.r tin* navy, upon which the safety of the mercantile marine depends.” Viscount .1 eViii'oe and Viscountess Jellicoe were the guests of the Navy P.eague to-night. A silken llag was presented for the lion. George jellicoe.

KARKWEI.LKI) HV SCOUTS. WELLINGTON, November HI.

There was a great gathering _ or Jiov Scouts and Girl Guides tit Newtown Park oil Saturday to say goodbye to Governor-General, Viscount Jellicoe, and Viscountess Jellieo. The Hon. George Jellicoe was amongst tho scouts, and the Hon. Prudence .lellicoe among the Girl Guides. Viscount. Jellicoe was presented by the scouts with n model scout, done in silver and greenstone. Viscountess Jellicoe rceeivtsl from tho Guides a riding whip with a greenstone handle, silver mounted.

A LIBEL ACTION. WELLINGTON. November 11. In the suit for libel. Monte: inn v. “Truth”, tin* jury found in favour of plaintiff and awarded £2OO dam iges. Wit nesses were called in rebuttal of evidence given that lie had .slept .it the tests. 11 is Honor said the statement had I,cm made that AHniteciuo had been sent to gaol for assaulting a one-.limed man. The only defence 'Mis that the statements were true. II the words were true no damages could he given

LEV El. CROSSING SMASH. NEW PLYMOUTH. Nov. I I

A collision between a mail train am a motor-car occurred at Maipuku cros sing to-night. The culy occupant o the car. Mr Ij. S. Hart, a former con tractor of St:atford, sustained C 'vei injuries. The engine caught ‘he ca full on and the vehicle was badly dam aged.

A 'FATAL ENDING. NEW PLYMOUTH. Nov. IT. Mart, the victim ol the accident a NYaipukn la u night. di-*d in tin- he Iiit:i 1 about midnight. The accidm occurred at Rutland Roa.d crossing. : little South of Waipuku. not where tin recent accident occurred. Decease) was driving a ear from Holland rum on t'l the main road, when la- wa: at ruck by 111-* mail train.

EI.FCTRIFKtATTOX OF RAILWAYS WELLINGTON. Nov. I.

The investigations of suburban railway seel ions with a view to possible electrification is proi ceding. .Mr ,v. P. drove, chief electrical engineer of .Her/, and MTlellan, having already spent several weeks oil the New Zealand railway system for the purpose of preparing the firm's repoit. They hn'O been asked to stale the cost of electrifying the four suburban raihvavs systems of the Dominion, and generally to indicate running conditions and costs under elect 1 ilieat ion. .Meric and MTlellan are among the leading consulting engineers of the world of railway electrification. They have a large railway electrification scheme :n hand in South Africa, and Mr drove, their representative, was ill charge of the

electrification of the Melbourne suburban system, lfe has made a 'cuer.i survev of Auckland conditions mil lefl to-night tj.ir the South Island to ill'peel the Christchurch and Dunedin suburban railways.

XAPIKi: WIIAI’I' STH IKK. NAPIKII, Xovemhcr 10. The Orari and the Cumberland are idle in the roadstead, llie walersitlers refusing to accept less than ,1s per hour for work on the lighters dealing with outside work in the bay. The owners tillered to meet them half nay, hut this was rejected.