DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. a tinwaljj .suspect. ASHBURTON, April ]. A paralysis suspect, a girl, aged fifteen months, has been iiospitallen hum Timvald. MR HOLLAND'S TOUR. ASHBURTON, Ai ril I. Mr 11. Holland, ALP., delivered an address on the Labour Party's land policy to a large audience last night. Referring to Mr .Massey’s illness. Mr Holland said no one more sincerely wishes the Premier a speedy recovery; men of all shades of political opinion would feel the same.

LIMITED EXPRESS A SUCCESS. WELLINGTON, April 1. The success of the limited night express to Auckland is so great that though the daylight train has not been entirely abandoned it is stated that there -is not much likelihood of it displacing the present service. The Minister of Railways is considering the provision of second-tbns sleepers. Those in Australia are said not to be popular and extensive enquiries will have to he made before embarking on expensive construction. OQI.E CHAMPIONSHIPS. WELLINGTON. March 31. The next New Zealand Ladies Gull Championship will he Imhl here on the .Miramar Links on October loth., to 22ud. A PROFESSOR'S DEATH. WELLINGTON, April 1. The University has received advice of the death of Prof. Bendy who Vasin the Biology Chair at Christchurch from 1393 to 1903. RADIUM TREATMENT. WELLINGTON. April 1. Three-quarters of a gramme ol radium. valued at £12.003 sterling, lor Wellington Hospital, has arrived and will he installed at Ihe hospital for the treatment of rancor. Ihe installation will he completed m two or three months. TARANAKI OHNEW PLYMOUTH. Mnnli 23. Taranaki Oilfields Ltd., reports thni the Tarata bore is down 1095 feel. Ihe hole is wet and progress is slow. Ihe Moturoa bora is down 2-it! tc.-t, and ireamed to 215 feet for 151 in. ca-ing. A few feet of dilfietdf ground arc still to he reamed. BETTING SHOP KINKS. BUNEDIX. April I. At the Police Court, Arthur Lawrence wild keeps a hali-shop. was lined C'so for using the premises as a gaming house. Arthur Francis Lawrence, his father, was fined £25 lor allowing them to be SO used. John Alfred Bnrwick was lined £5 nil two charges of assisting. I lie police stated a had feature was that many women figured among the customers. W.C.T.L. OI KK'EBK. BUN ERIN. April 1. At the Women's Chrb I inn Temperance Union Conference. Mrs Don (Dunedin) was re-elected President. Ml T. K.. Taylor (Chrislcliur- ID Secretary and Mrs Bendely (Auckland) I rensitrVAMITY COSTS tin. (II RISK Ilf RCII. April I. Described by his counsel as one ol the extraordinary i lass ol men who lined to he with the kinds ol the course. Albert Edward Wilson, carpenter, was lined £l9 this morning on a charge of taking bets in a bar. The deieme <Oll- - that Wilson only did bookmakiug for other men in order to get a tree pick occasionally. \rCKI.AND KENTENt'MS. AUCKLAND. April I. At the Supreme Court Robert Thomas Roberts was sentenced to two years hard labour on nine charges of obtaining CIO P's CJ i y false preleliees. rhiefly in the King Country. Reginald John Massey (or breaking, entering and thcll by night, received I 3-mont hs’ ha i d la h uir. WARNING TO SHIPPING. W'J I INGTOX. \}. lil 1A message i Hro: (leas led by Sydney, that the schooner he Pronn, wrecked recently off Kddystone Lighthouse, Tasmania is now adrtlt. and floating bottom up and a danger to navigation, ft is also reported that forester Light, on the East Coast, is Hashing ineorrcetlv. REMAND KOI! A WEEK. CHRISTCHURCH April 1. When Eroderick Peter Mount appeared on remand this mottling charged with having murdered his wile, the Crown staled that it would he prepared to go on with the full ease on April Kith. A icmand for a week was granted in the meantime.