DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[IIY TEI.EORACII —PUR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A FINE EFFORT. WANGANUI, Jan. 19. Thu carnival recently organised to raise funds for the Wanganui Agricultural Association's new show grounds resulted in a clear profit of 65,120. FURTHER UPSET. WANGANUI, Jan. 19. The prevalence of infantile paralysis has led to the abandonment of the Wanganui Caledonian sports motor boat carnival and athelelic clubs annual gathering.

SHOW POSTPONED. LEYIN, January 19. ()niug to the Health Departments edict the I lorowhonua Show fixed for the 27th and 28th has been postponed to a dale to he selected. SCALDED TO DEATH. LEYIN. January 19. The three-year-old daughter of Adam McLeod of Ihakara. died from a scalding sustained hy falling into a bucket of boiling water which the mother had set down momentarily while she went to attend to a baby. MAN’S BODY FOUND. CAM BRIDGE. Jan. 19. The body of the man drowned on December 21th was discovered just below the bridge, two miles below where (he fatality occurred. The body was iaught by a leg ami was in an advanced state of decomposition. The body lias been identified as that ~l .1,,!,,, l.Vlat. single, a native of Denmark and aged 15. lie was employed as a carpenter and a dicer at Hie llorahora power works. RECORD ENTRIES. HAMILTON, January 19. Record gentries, totalling Face beeen received for the New Zealand Amateur Championship Regatta at Hamilton on January 29th. the entries including Auckland. Wanganui. Wellington, Tauranga. Blenheim, Hamilton and Christchurch. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. HAMILTON, January 19.

A shocking accident occurred on the Raglan road when a car containing Mr and Mrs Selw.vu Tyler, Mr and Mrs Stanley Tyler and lour children full sidewavs over a bank one hundred feet. Mrs Sehvyn Tyler throw the baby clear, but was herself caught under the ear and killed instantly. Ihe others wore slightly injured, the Messrs Tyler are well-known business men. GAMING i I OUSE FINE. NELSON, January 19George A. Clements pleaded guilty to occupying premises used as a <om moll gaming house and was fined Three oilier charges arising out nl Hie same circumstances were withdrawn.

MAORI LAND CLAIMS. CHRISTCHURCH. .January 19. The Native Land Court sat to-cay at Tuahiwi, near KaiapoL to consider the claims of the Ngaitahu. tribe under the Ken,,, purchase. I his .... ning Chief Judge Jones was wehomtd hv the Maoris, who are present ' ail parts of the New Zealand. I he> assured tlcn that just.ee would done, hut the Government would “ pour out cold for the Maoris to sq na der. He then adjourned the -cn till the afternoon in memory ot Maoris who had died without seeing iheir claims settled. EARTHQUAKE AT BI.ENHF.IAI. (H AKE RINGS F'IRFT.ELL. B 1 EX HELM- Jan. L>Three shocks of earthquake were experienced here throughout the nb, t one at 11.20. one at nn ‘Vverv "oat 12.15. The first shock was \ei> •*_ vc*n\ a number of cliimn:\\ > atm, m Tf;f quake rang the Blenheim lire bell and stocks on the shelve* m U shops were scattered on Lie f h> comparatively little damage was