DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH—r£B PRESS association. WOOI- SALES. N ABLER, .January 14. The wool sales opened this morning when a catalogue comprising twenty-five thousand hales was submitted to full benches. Prices early showed no disposition to reach the heights achieved at the earlier sales, hut remained firm on those accorded at the recent Wanganui sale. Up to noon prices had shown a general all round decline of a penny per pound on prices at the preceding Napier sale. The decline occasionally wont as far as two pence, hut for nod's and attractive lots higher figures were obtained. The range of havers operating seemed larger than at previous sales, and bidding was brisk. FOUND HANGING. INVERCARGILL, .Tan,nan- M. The body of Stephen ’Watson, single, aged 21. farm labourer, was found hanging in. a. shed at Bahia. Deceased suffered from ill-health. WHALERS • UCCKSS. INVERCARGILL. January 14. A wireless message from Ross Sea whalers states that by January Bth. they had taken fourteen thousand casks cf oil. The fleet is expected hack at Stewart Island, the second week in March. KONIN I ENQUIRY. CAPTAIN CENSURED. INVERCARGILL, .January 14. The Court found the master of the Konini guilty of a wrongful act in continuing at full speed under the circumstances hut while censuring him did not consider it sufficient to justify the suspension'of his certificate which was returned. The captain was ordered to pay forty pounds towards the costs. THEFT OF WOOL. TIMARU, January M. At the Magistrate’s Court, Thomas Erie Austin pleaded guilty to the theft of wool valued at £7O and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, January It. Obituary—Samuel Gilmer, Proprietor of the Royal Oak Hotel. DRUNKEN -MOTORIST FINEDELTHAM, January 1-1. On a charge of driving it motor car while under the influence of liquor, Thomas Whyte, a farmer, was fined £lO in the Magistrate's Court to-day. ,\ serious view wa-s taken, hut as Whyte promised never to drive a car again, the Bench indicted a line' only. Whyte lost control of the car coming down a hill and to save going over the hank lie ran into the side. When the police arrived lie was under the iniluence of liquor, hut was not paralytic drunk. He- had a> Mask ol whisky with him. This is the first case under the Motors Act in Eltharn. THROUGH A WINDOW. CHRISTCHURCH,. Jan. 14. A motor-cycle and sidecar went through the window of Messrs A. Hol\lohou and Son, Ltd., in ’I mini Street, yesterday morning, ihe machine was standing with the engine idling, and ■the rider’s wife and child were in the sidecar. The engine accelerated and the machine hounded over the gutter, and. although it broke the window, valued r.t £3O. Ihc omipunis of tlm sidecar escaped injury. A TRIVIAL DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, January US. Trimble over tenders for medals has resulted in. the Auckland Amateur Athletic Centre deciding to relinquish, the. right to hold the New /.calami championships hero. Mr lingo, secretary of the New /,ca kind Association, telegraphed to the Auckland Centre to invite tenders fur standard design medals, quotations to reach him not later than January The secretarv of the Auckland Centre replied: '* Does rouncil intend to accept lowest Auckland tender.' Otherwise afraid centre will relinquish championships. Mr Hugo wired: “Not necessary Previously accepted Auckland tenders for championships elsewhere. .Policy unchanged.” The Auckland secretary then telegraphed relinquishing the meeting. The contention is that championship trophies in Auckland should he supplied by Auckland jewellers. FATAL FALL. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 13. A fall of fifteen feet from a ladder caused the death of Eric Arnold Hall, a linesman employed l»v the New Plymouth Borough Council, this alter,llooll. Death was almost instantaneous, the hack of the skull and the neck being seriously injured. Hall was about twenty-eight years old, married, with mi family. No one saw the accident. Deceased is believed to have slipped.

LOSS OK AX EVIL XKAY PLYMOUTH, January 13. The bursting of a lemonade bottle resulted in Mrs E. J. Lobb, of Westown, losing the sight of one eye. Mrs Lobb was one of a picnic party, and when a bottle burst a piece of glass entered her eye, which was removed at an operation. XATIVE TEACHERS’ COXKEREXCE. AUCKLAND, January 13. The annual conference of the Native School Teachers’ Association was opened to-day. The report stated that the membership totalled 120. The meeting decided to make another attempt to obtain full holidays to which the schools ‘■were entitled under the Act, The Department had previously refused, saying it was not in the interests of native children to have more holidays, but since had promised an additional week. Mr W. X'. Coughlan (Omaio). was elected president; Messrs CL Grintlley (Tehapua) and E. R. Houle (Pamapuria), vice-presidents; and Mr H. G. Vine (Rnatoki) secretary. DEPABTMEXTS TO SEPARATE. WELLIXGTOX. January 13.

Owing to an increase in the work, especially of the Prisons Department, the Departments of Justice and Prisons, which for some time have been administered jointly, though from time to time separated, .will shortly be separated again, and in a few days time applications will he inivted for the Under-Secretaryships of Justice and Prisons. IXKAXT DROWXED. MARTOX, January 13.

Mervvn Bailey, aged two years, a son of Mr John Mailey, a labourer at Reddon’s farm. Upper Tutaenui, was missing yesterday. The body was later found in an adjacent stream, wnioh rose thirty inches in one hour as the result of a cloudburst. CUT lIfS THROAT. PALMERSTON X., Jan. 13. James Joseph Randall, married, aged fifty-seven, committed suicide in his bedroom this afternoon, cutting his throat with a razor. He was discovered by his wife a few minutes later. According to the police, there is no known reason for the act. --cease was employed as a tailor’s assistant in Palmerston North.