DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

A SHOP ACCIDENT.

AUCKLAND, March 13,

A peculiar and costly accident occurred about noon to-day at A. Mel vends Household Stores, in Karangahapo Road. AVithout any warning the choiring on one side of the shop of a length of about 100 feet, heavily, laden with all manner of goods, came adrift from, the wall, and fell in towards the centre of the shop). Fortunately there was a line of iron piping several feet in front of the shelves, and about seven feet from the floor. This arrested the falling shelves, and probably saved the attendants and the shoppers from serious injuries.

The shelves were like a bookcase, with tiers, and the pins pulled out from a concrete wall, about the centre of the room, where the hardware was stored. In a second the whole line was tottering, and the goods were precipitated over the floor and the counters with a resounding crash.

Fortunately, only two attendants were behind the counter, and they managed to get out of the way of the falling goods. The counters comprised six glass show eases, all of which were full of various articles, including the most expensive in the place. Four of these show eases, valued at £SO each, were shattered, and their contents were transformed to debris. The damage will run into thousands, and there is no covering insurance. A DIVORCE CAS' E. GISBORNE, March 15. The Supreme Court was occupied yesterday afternoon and to-day on the hearing of the case of Samuel McKee v. .Mabel McKee (respondent) and Hugh Hoyle (co-respondent), a petition for divorce on the grounds of alleged adultery, and a claim of five hundred damages. After deliberating two hours, the jury found adultery had been committed, and assessed the damages to he awarded petitioner at ninety pounds and a decree nisi was granted, also costs against co-respondent on the highest scale. LORRY DRIVER KILLED. NAPIER. March 13. The “Herald's” Taupe correspondent telegraphs stating that a carrying .contractor, Donald Robert M’Kctizic, was

killed to-day as tlie result of a motor lorry going over the side of the road Coming up a short hill on the Rotorua side of the AYairakci Hotel, the driver of a sPTVjice ear noticed unusual marks on the road, and upon investigation found deeaesed’s heavy motor lorry, with a trailer, about lOl’l. down the hillside, out of sight from the road. Deceased's body |was lying in the scrub with one wheel of the trailer pressing on his neck. A roadman states that deceased passed him ten minutes before the service driver discovered lire accident.

ROIMNG FOR OIL. XEAY PLYMOUTH, March 13. Oil-boring operations were" reported on to-night by the general manager of Taranaki Oilfields, who states that the Tara til bore is down 1000 ft. in good ground for boring. The Mnturoa Imre is down 210 ft. There is some good gas and a good show of oil.