DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAM PIIESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. VISIT TO SOUTH ISLAND. WELLINGTON, January 13. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Alice Fergusson will pay their first official visit to the South Island next month. According to present arrangements, they will leave Wellington on the night of February 4 for Dunedin, arriving there on February 5, and staying until February 13. On February 13 they will go on to Invercargill, where they will remain until February 16. Then they will leave for Christchurch, arriving there on the night of hchruatx 1/. They will remain in Christchurch until about the end ol February, when the' will return to AA'ellington. SETTLERS’ DIFFICULTIES. WELLINGTON. January 15. The Minister of Lands is receiving many requests for relief from Crown and Soldier Settlers who suffered by the floods. From his personal observations he is able to say that a great hulk of the damage is not of a permanent nature, hut grazing is wholly or practically ruined this season. Land Boards have been directed to make enquires without delay and if necessary to recommend the postponement- of payment of rent. THREE THEFT CASES. AUCKLAND. January 14. At the Polce Court, Frederick Alexis Wildnum, aged 17, pleaded guilty to four charges of breaking and entering various premscs and stealing a motor-ear. benzine atul so on. Ho was committed for trial. AVilliam Harold Cosgrove was charged with breaking and entering the shop of Charles Donald and stealing jewellery and greenstone valued at £3O, and with breaking and entering the Window of Arthur Lindsay with intent to commit a crime. He was committed far sentence. Francs Leo Credit!, aged 25, was charged with theft- of books from a private house and was remanded. A policeman said he saw Credin leaving the house at midnight. Credin bolted, but was caught hy the polecma.ii. A second man, thought to be Gredin’s accomplice, escaped. SOLICITOR CHARGED. TIMAR'U, January 14. Alartin Joseph O’Brien, solicitor, of Tima.ru, who was arrested here- to-day on a charge of alleged forgery in respect of a cheque, for £32 8s 9d, was brought before the Magistrate and remanded till January 21, bail being allowed, self in £2OO and one surety of £200.’

PRICE OF SUGAR. AUCKLAND, January 14. The price of all grades of raw and refined sugars, golden syrup, and treacle have been reduced from to-morrow l>y the Colonial Sugar Co. The reduction is attributed to over-production of sugar throughout the norm. AIASTKRTON R EPOR.T WORSE. ALASTERTON, January 14. The position in regard to the infantile paralysis epidemic is slightly worse to-day. A second death, that of a. young hoy, occurred to-night while tw<) fresh eases are reported. AI AN SUICIDES. AUCKLAND. January 11. Cyril Knightly aged 29 was seen to jump from, the Ai'kles Ba.v '(hart today. An effort was made to save him by a. voting man named Tnllcy, blit he was unsuccessful. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict- of suicide hv drowning. STUD SHEEP SALE. ALASTERTON. Jan. 14. The Seventh Annual AYairarapa Mud Breeders’ Ram and Ewe Sale, was held to-day .buyers being present from all over the Dominion. Ridding was erratic, and only the eyes of the market were picked out. the sheen not showing quality being neglected. Ton priev was soc.-i.irod Uy Air •». KHcwitl (Alangamniro) with a Romney shearing ram. which was sold to Air J. AY. Jones. Bay of Islands, for 200 guineas. Five rams offered hy Mr Hewitt, averaged 110 guineas, while 15 Penrose (Mr AY. Perry’s JRomneys averaged 7-> guineas. The highest price in the hitter oilerinn was 157 guineas. Lincolns and I'omnio Romneys were liegleetd.

SALE OF TOBACCO. CHRISTCHURCH, dan. 11 Fining a man £5 and costs for sellin" cigarettes during the hours in which tobacconists’ .slums are required to ho closed. Air AYyvern A\ iLon. mAI.. said that the practice ol shop-keepers in selling cigarettes after hours to the detriment of the legitimate tobacconists must he cheeked. If the hours dormer which tobacconists’ shops were permitted to he open did not suit tlie public, then such hours should lie changed. . . "While those hours were m operation however, the tobacconists had to he protected.