DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. TELEPHONIC. A FCK LAND. March K 3. Chid I elegraph Engineer Shrimpton fully expects hv tile end of this year that telephonic ejiiimiinical.iou will he established between the North and South Islands. Auckland will he able to call any town as lar south as Invercargill. 'I he service will he open day and night. Equipment will he provided to ensure excellent audibility. A SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, March Hi. The body of Frederick Hamilton was found in tlie harbour fully dressed, with no marks of violence. He was a single man. aged 21). lie was admitted to Auckland Hospital on February 28th. sidle ring from blood poisoning. lie disappeared Irniii the institution on Thmsday and left a letter saving life was a misery and he intended to suicide.

MAN DROWNED. 1 NEW PLYMOUTH. March Hi. William limit, IF), was drowned while attempting to lord Awakino river on Sunday morning, lie leaves a wife and eight children. His hint her lirst attempted to cross, hut returned saying it wa.s unsafe. William, however, actually crossed and then turned hack and got into deep water. In September last, lie was with a nephew, Duncan Hepburn, when the latter was drowned. A BLENHEIM FIRE. BLENHEIM, March 15.

A lire early on Sunday morning gutted two shops in Market, Stieet, occupied by O. P. Bastings, ilicmist, and F. Patchett. tailor and mercer. The building, which was a two storey wooden .structure and was owned by \Y. Can. was completely gutted. The insurance on the building is £-101) in the Home Office. Bastings laid £BSO .on the -stock and fittings in the London. Lancashire and St udai'd and Royal Offices. I’atchetl had £550 in the Prudential. F.'c.'b' aid North British Office. H. A. Drawbridge's honk' emporium, and a workshop on the top floor were completely destroyed and an adjoining retail shop and stock (benched with water. Drawbridge is insured for £ISOO in the Phoenix and Sun Of rices. The brigade effected good work', preventing a spread. THE FIRST TEST. CHRISTCHURCH, March i Owing to an injury Collins (Wellington) is unable to play in the first cricket test. Messrs F. Bui ton (Wanganui), and li, T. Cobero( (Wellington) have been appointed umpires.

A DARING ADVENTURE. WELLINGTON. Alareli 1(3,

Recently a (hiring attempt was made h.v (G Harding and his two sons, aged twelve and eleven, to travel hv a canvas canoe from Alasterton to AVellington, risking the snags’and boulders in the rapals of the AYaipoiia and Ruamnliunga rivers. Alter capsizes ami fiequent holdings and halts for patching, they paddled through lakes M'airarapa and Onaki to the sea and tintried to make the thirty mile tn round the coast in the open se.t to Wellington. But for a change in the wind they would have succeeded and another mile would have seen the journey completed. As it was they were drenched and exhausted and they had to make a landing in the surf amongst the boulders near the spot whole the Devon went ashore. The hundred-mile trip took six days.

CIIRISTCH URL 11 MAYO RA LTV. CHRISTCHURCH. ALarch 10. Labour has now decided to nominate a candidate for the Alnyoralty of Christcliuri h. TREES DESTROYED BY FIRE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 10 A lire on the Cashmere Hills yesterday, stinted apparently by picnickers, swept over rn area cf fifty acres, damaging thirty thousand young pine trees in Blackwoods, owned bv the Citv Council. FATALITY AT FACTORYAl UR CHIRON. Al arch 13 As the result of the bursting of. a pipe at Ahtruia Butter Factory on Saturday afternoon .lover Sidswurtli. the three and n-half-yearold daughter or the factoi-y manager was overwhelmed with ammonia. The sufferer received medical attention and was brought to the hospital, hut succumbed In't night. BOM’LING CLUB’S APPEAL. M'EiLLIXGTOX. Alareli IG. The Appeal Couit opened this morning. The calendar cotnpiises twentytwo eases of which four will he heard by the Full Court. .Justices Sim, Reed and Adams are engaged hearing the appeal hv the M ellington Bowling Club against Air Justice Ostler’s decision in the case wherein J. D. Sievwright proceeded against the club aiul obtained a verdict for wrongful expulsion fioin membership.

GERAfAX CONSUL. AUCKLAND. Alareli 10. Herr C. Brisking. German ConsulGeneral for Australia. New Zealand ami the Islands arrived by the Aorangi to-day on an official visit. He comes seeking general information. Brisking said: “Some people in Australia are friendly to us and some are not. It needs some time to overcome sentiment.” He leaves in a few days for AYeHington, whence he goes to the Islands,