DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. ONE CURED—ONE ESCAPES. CLIP,.LSICHURCH, January 8. One of the leper patients at Quail Island has escaped, and is still at large. The patient is a European, who liad contracted the disease in a mild form. He had responded to the Chanlmoogra oil tieatment, and wa.s well on the way to be cured. He had of late, been very restless and bad threatened to rim away from the island.

R : is considered likely that lie may make for the Peninsula, where, at this time of the year hundreds of grassseeders and other harvest workers are emoloyed.

I iinothy Kokiri, the Maori leper patient, who was recently announced to he cured, was released from Quail Island on Tuesday afternoon, and proceeded to his home in the North Island by that night’s ferry steamer.

AVIDOYY’S SUICIDE. Christchurch, January 7. Fanny Thompson, a widow, aged fiO years, was found at her home at 450 Durham Street, yesterday, with her throat cut. Her daughter went home for lunch at noon, and found the house locked up. AA hen she gained admittiiiice, she discovered her mother lying dead. Mrs Thompson had been in illhealth for some time, and had been attended by a doctor. It appears that she was .suffering from a nervous breakdown. There was nothing unusual in her appearance yesterday morning, Mrs Thompson being in her normal condition, with the exception that she complained of not feeling very well.

ARRESTED FOR THEFT. CHRISTCHURCH. January 8. Ernest Hawkins, Chairman of the Spreydon School Committee was arrested to-dav on a charge of theft, involving £2l. ft is alleged the money was part of the proceeds of a bazaar, and bad been entrusted to Hawkins’ keeping. AA’lien the time came for the money to he handed over to the Education Board. Hawkins, according to the police report, failed to do so. Ho appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, and wa.s remanded. A TRAP ACCIDENT. TAUMARI'NUI, January 8. A gig capsized at Kirigau to-day, resulting in T. Tussell sustaining a fractured arm. and his child, aged four, months, a fractured skull. The victims were taken to the hospital. PROTEST AGAINST AWARD. AUCKLAND. January 8. A meeting of the AVnterside AVorkcrs adopted a resolution emphatically protesting against the injustice of the Arbitration Court’s wages awarded, as being against Hie evidence presented to the Court, and totally inadequate to provide a decent, standard ol living to men engaged in the occupation. The resolution calls on the Government to institute a Commission ol Inquiry into the waterfront wages iu the Demin ion.

\\ A 1111 MINE-RETURNS. AUCKLAND. January 9. Wailii Goldminiiig Coy., during the period ended December :11st., crushed 19.282 tons of ore for AAIA line ounces of gold and 17.978 line ounces of silver. In the corresponding period of ;,].e previous year 15,010 tons yielded .'. “IS ounces of gold and 8->,l-;l ounces of .diver.

Tie* following information has been cabled to tin 1 bead office, London—No I I level. Edward lode, driving south next 18 Let assays 10 s.q.d. per ton. Tee reel' i wider than the drive. No 18 level, LA I wal'd lode, have recommended driving south-west, 18 feet, 80s (id per ton; No 1A level, north crosscut is out LB ieoL and south cross-cut 1.“*2 feet. BOY DROWNED. TI.AIAUIT,, .January 9. A boy named Gordon Charles .McMillan, aged 19, an inmate of Bramwell Booth Home, Temuka, was drowned in Opihi River. SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO CLOSE. WELLINGTON, January 9. In view of the continued reporting of suspected cases of infantile paralysis, the Diieetor-General of Health lias written to the churches stating that it is highly desireablo tliyj Sunday schools which have been chiXed for the holidays should not reopen tor the present. No action lias been taken in regard to day schools as they do not reopen iinlil after the end ol the mouth.

FOUND DROWNED. *=> BLEND ETM. January 9. .lain; Wedge, aged 00, a gardener at the Richmondhrnok station. Awatero. was found drowned this morning in a pool of water, near the homestead. BRIBE THAT FAILED. AUCKLAND. January 9. Arthur William WiWhere was lined £1 •> 10s at the Police Court for attempting to bribe a Customs official by offering tlie latter some silver and with failing trulv to answer questions in regard to goods. The amount of fluty was small, raid the ( ollectoi of Customs, and hut for the attempted bribery there would have been no court vase. . . Defendant denied the attempted m il.orv saving he merely asked the official to have a drink. Defendant was a working man.