DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

I[llY TELEGRAPH—PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] VITAL STATISTICS. M LLLING TON, November 20. A statement in the Gazette shows that the total births registered for uihan areas in October amounted to HOd, as against I PI!) in September, a decrease of .‘!(i. Deaths in October "ere odd, a decrease of three as eom- • pared with the previous n-oiith. Of I the total deaths males contributed 252 and k-males 2 Is. Seventy of the deaths were ol children tinder five years of age. being 1:t.21 per ec-ot of j the whole ntimher. Furl.v-oight of these Were under one year of age. STATE kirk ok kicks perch ask. CHRISTCHER.CH, Nov. 22. An imj.-ortaiit sale of Christchurch ( ity property has been completed, the State hire Insurance Department paying £20.0(10 for a block of land in Worcester St. with it frontage of fifty-,, tx I feet and a depth of one hundred Mid sixty-five feet. This is the first property purchased by the Department -it tile South Island.

FALSE TAX RETURNS. WELLINGTON, November 21. At the Court to-da.v, John Henry Phillips, butcher for making false income returns for 1021, 1022, 102.‘1, 1021, showing a deficiency of C 1,111)7, wtts lined L'Af) on each charge. Edward Harrison, for the theft of eight oppossum skins from the cargo steamer Tiirakitia, was sentenced to twenty-one days’ imprisonment.

SPA 11 LINGER SER CM. NELSON, November 21. .*t.r 11. Atmore, M..L, has received the following letter from Sir M. Ponv aro, Minister i f Health “ Willi reference to the petition handed in hv you, on behalf of 11. Gray and otic hundred others during last session,l have to inform you that, so far, Snahlin.ger has been unable to supply his plena ration. There has been no lack of effort on the part of the High Commissioner in London to negotiate with Snahlin.ger on behalt ol New Zealand, and the Government here is watching the limiter very closely.”

WANGANEI SENTENCES. j WANGANEI, .Nnv.-iiili.-r 21. At the Supreme (null. .Inst ice McGregor sentenced prisoners as lollows: Patrick I luydiicy for an tit lural nlfctiee and indecent assault at Horn-I pitn, was on tin- major charge, given ten years, and also live years on the other charge, the sentences to be cumulative, or 1-T years in all. Ibe I .lodge remarked that had the prisoner been a more robust and younger | man, he would have ordered a Bogging. Clitf.inl -I. Hudson for theft tit Palmerston North, received r.-iormatne

treatment lot twelve months. William Keith Uhls and Alexander John McLean, for indecently assaulting a male, were given live yeats. WRECK AGE. WELLINGTON. November 21. The police have been inlormed »>f wreckage renting ashore at Red Rocks, betwi-.r Happy Vall.-y jam! Sinclair Heads. No further informntinn is available.

WIIARK l-’ATALITY. WELLINGTON. November 21. ('htts. Kkltiud. a Swede. aged AO vears. tbe bulk keeper of the ('empany’s " Salgran-.." wbile .-limbing tbe ladder at Pit.ilea WliatT. fell back jilt,, tbe sea and apparently struck los bead, lie was picked ill. dead. RAMA ABANDONED. WELLINGTON, November 21. A message received from tbe Postmaster at Chatham Islands states the Kama was ahand.med early on Kriday morning. The eri-w are all sale. Ihe wind ha.- now .■hang-.l t" 'I H.-we.-l and s.-as are breaking over H'" vessel whi< h a j -at"- to be a total loss.