DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

L«Y TELKGRAPiI—i'JOU PJIESS ASSOCI ATIO.V.] BROTHER WOUNDS SISTER. ACCUSED BEFORE COURT. AUCKLAND. .May 7. Bertie Rest aged lie, appearexi at the Felice Court charged with wounding Gert rinle Rest, his sister, on April loth, xk 1 ill intent to do grit veils I>;nlilv hit ciii. Gertrude Rest said that die was a kept Imii'c i’oi- Ihe accused at ll.iiniitoa. in March la ! she xxa- Irightoned of lit r I.rather who was sinm-rimes saher and s-iiin-l iates drunk. iSlie i .iuuto Auckland on April IRtli. Accused followed and she refused again to keep house for him. He struck her on the face. Witness kept company with Mr Scholl/., to whom the accused objected saying that Schultz was a German On April Nth. accused accompanied witness to her si-ier Eileen. and Scholl z. to the (heat re. Accn.-ed ph lied ;t. row there with witness in ennsei|tU’liee of which she and Scholl/, left l la> theatre. Accused who had had some liquor xvus c.tiling Seeli/, ;t German ami witn-.-ss a prostitute.’ Alter that acensttl and Schell/, hud a light ia-\t day ahniit 7.39 p.in. Aei-itsed in was employed as a wan lee . Kb---,x a ; told hy Ihe woman in charge of Ihe hi u-hen t o take him home. xVii - ness told accused final she xxoidd not go hark to the reslanranl hcaii-e he had made a scene there and that she xv.-.s going to look far Scholl/.. .Act-Us-ed rushed her and she fell tlimitL to a simp. At (It Oil -,vas ilrtink. l-nl he assaulted her was because site, was going with Scholl z. lie alleged immorality hel'ween hers-c!I ami Si-noll/.. She was slid bring treated as an outpatient of the hospital.

A M Ml! IGA N FLKKT. WELLINGTON, Max 0

Further partii tilar.s reeeived hy the Govi-rument in reward to the Anterli.in tloet, show that 7t!S ollieers anil. 11.070 melt will accompany tin- .section, which will ill-live in Wellington ..ii August. 11. The following will compose. tin- del achnien Is visiting New Zealand.

Wellington dei.-c limenl. Flagship Seattle. l-1.7-.it) tons. 70 ollicer.s and 77,i; men; hat tie dixision No O I’eti-

II ylvania. 31,400 tons, 08 officers and 1 -Jol) 1111-11 : Oklale-ma, 27.7U0 tons. SO etfirers and i 1 (i 7 men; Nevada. A,.e11!) tons, 7!i Olivers and 1111 men. light cruiser division. No 2, Richmond. 7700 tons. 78 officers and 107 men ; Trenton. 7700 tons. To oil hers and 132 men; MarLli-lvaxl. 7700 tons, ;!7 officers and TIT men; .Memphis.

7701) tons. T!) officers am! TPS men; destroyer squadron. Omaha (ilagslbp). 7700 toes. TO ollicer.s and -TIG men; .Melville (squadron tender), i 100 tons. :’>7 oflieers ami 71!) men; Allair (sqmitlroii tenth-!-). 1T.027 tolls. TT olfix-Ci's and 7TO men; txxeldy-eig!it destroyers with (S olli-ci-s 1 ajiiu-oximaiely 117 men cat'll : hospital ship ItelnT. OHIO tons. 72 <-Ificers and 780 men, Auckland detachment.- Battle ih-x-t. flagship California. 72.T00 tons. 08 officers and 1111 men; ii.iitle.ship divisions I and 7. We.-t Virginia, 72.G00 tons. w 7 ollicer.s and 1701 men; Nexv XI i■ n ie. i. : : ,'_'.i:!io ton-. 70 officers and Imelt ; Idaim. 72.000 ton-. 81 ..(li eel-.- ami 1310 men; Colorado. 7,2.000 tons. 87 officers and 1270 uieii ; Alal'y!;.n,| ;)•_>.O(K) urns; 70 eflicers and 12-1-1 men ; . Tennessee. 72.7,00 tolls. 78 officer, and 127 ) men ; Medu.sn (repair s|,i|!l, p).0! t) tolls. 72 ollieers and p; I men. A lotal of (SO! officers and in.(ITT men will visit Auckland. TUI 11F SI-71 S HOUSE A i-i ill-:. WE1,1,1 NGTON. May 8. The puli:-.' w.-re notified that a ihiet visited a xx .-11-know a h -anliug house on Wednesday evening and after stealing several sum- of money s-l two di il't-ren I rooms alight. Tie flames were di.-covered and extinguished bci’,,ic much dauuigc x\;c. -h-!i'.'. KM I'l If I-I DAV. Will.l-INGTON. May 8. An t irdcr-iii-Coiincd announced that Kaipin- I tax i - to he c -h-brat'-d on Iho King'- Rirth-lay. -Inm- 7r«l. ToTAI.iSAToI! i!KV F.M'K. WELL I ,\GT( )N . May 8. Th-- ;.:t.iii-.ator r--vctitc tor the year was £7! 10.-187. being a (lex-lea-e ol nearly £28,000. CAPITAL VAUT-: OF AIT KI.ANI). A I'CK LAN I). May 0. The retiring Mayor Sir -lames Omi,.,ii). at a meeting ol the m-xv < it.v c.mnetl. state! that the Govern lit value I ion of i city capita! \ due xxas C77.707.7t0. It, lit--, .struck I- r t lie i-n-Ml j„g xeiii- would he the same as last ve.tr. The estimates of the tramway nccouni anticipated a. deficiency o!

A DANGEROUS MAN. WELLINGTON. May o. Men \ a John Cudhv. a lean with a Pad record was described by the police as a man who-- lorte is sa ie-tdow in.g asentenced to tiiree months im-

prisonment for being in possession ol ■ el i--- ii lie, one month tor stowing axxax. ,: 11,* on-- iiL'-uth i-n- breaking the terms ( .j Us prohufioli, the sell tel it x-s to hv concurrent. The police said that while ( ii. 11., xv.,s iii Wellington sales went Up st weekly, lie left h.-re last August for Australia, where he was sentenced to six mouths tor being in pos-

session of explosives. lie returned to Auckland as a stowaway.

IMPORTATIONS OF WHEAT. WELLINGTON. May 0. For wheat ‘imported to make up the local deficiency L'1,71 >0.019 wn- .-eni out of the Dominion tor the litteeii months p. Alareh 71 la-;, as compared with e.7t)s f for a similar perio-i "■ the pm-

SCHOOL'S F.KNEFAC TOR. AUCKLAND. May 7. One of the happiest lm-n in Autk ■land province yesterday. was .xlr A

Mahom-y, an old sealer of Reason, lie laid planned and tended a I‘iece of land for forty years in the hope that a school would be built upon it. .and at hist i;e had seen his wish .fulfilled. The school is that at .Massey. Rinlwood between I lender-on. am! Swanson, which the Minister for Education formally opened xesierday. Until a year or so ago. the land i'- rmed

part of a public reserve sin aside originally as a park-. Mr Mnhoney. a pioneer gum-diguor. who lor nearly half a eontury iias lived in a small imt near bv. conceived the idea that

a school should one day he built upon the site. I" that end he temod it. planted a shelter belt of pines around the boundaries, put in an eleagntis hedge, cleared the land of manuka and saw it established in rough grass. In spite of his old ago. lie continued to tend the property,

replacing hedgeplants when the wind blew them down, and earing for the I'eine. At length, when the pines had become well grown, the .Kdiication Hoard decided to build a school in the (listriev. and Mr .Mahoney's choice ot a site was approved. Naturally, Mi fclnhmiey attended the opening ceremony. 'I he people to the district had subscribed lor, and purchased, a line rug. which the Minister presented to the siliool's old lienefaetor. Sir James Farr tell lie- gathering that Mr .Milhoney's work was the finest example of unselfish, humble service for the cie-uiioii good that he had heard ot in his term of -ufiee. l’rol.alily 110xx hero el~e in New Zealand had a coin-parativx-ly pom- m-in niulertaken such .1 xvorl; for the hem-lit of the children of ihe community. Jle urged the children to remember wi-at .Mr Mahoney had done for them, and to profit by hi> example. lIOTKI. TKXUiI-:. T.T-T-T-K T OF J.NSKCT.MHTV. WKI.LIXGTOX, M.ay 7. Replying; io a statement of lln- J lon. ,G. J. Anderson, at Hie Chamber of (‘omineree haiiquet, tint I the tenure of hotels was decided hy the people every three years. .Mr I’orcy Coyle, the I’resiileut of the New Zealand Licensed Victualler;.' Association, says: “The people -In not decide the tenure al all. They decide the question of abolition. The tenure is a Government matter, and its alteration can only he done hy altering lhe Att. The people vote on abolition. ~'iikl it is this insecurity of tenure created by a voix- overv three years that C mainly respoiisil.de lor retarding the progress of building ami renovations in l lie hotel business.'' Mr Coyle also referred to .Mr Anderson's specific case of a hoarding house being very eie'an, hul the -Minister made a general statement that : “When an American visits a first-class hotel. > barging a first-i-lass price, and finds it .is not even clean, lioxv can you expect him to rerommotid our scenic beauties or anything riser" It, was min-h to lie regretted, said Mr Coyle, that the Minister should only generalise in one r:iau-l l-t- specific ill Ihe other. BPORTING F.NTH USIASTS. AVKTd-iNTiTON", May 8. A census of summer sports .sltoxx's racing- and trotting with 25,000 niemliers. tennis 19,271, hoxvling 17,075, cricket- 10.871. swimming 0.008, croquet (mostly women) 2,-ISO and lowing 1.910. WHEAT HOARD WANTED. A.SITE UR TON. May 7. A eonlVreneo of the ’Wheat, oxvnor.s of Canterbury and North Oi-ago and th.- millers of Canlerbury was held to discuss future prices of wheat, and it lmanininu.sl.v adopted a proposal that the Government he requested to set up a hoard comprising rcpro.sentntix’os of growers, millers, merchants, dairy and poultry farmer-, and ‘lie Govern men!. N.Z. I’KNSTONS BILE. WKLLTXGTON. .May 8. The annual value of pensions paid by the Government, last year was £2.721.9,77. War pensions accounted for £1,107.718. .-sides some £07,000 paid in London, old ag-- £81.9)91. widows £2. 80700

habitual criminal 'escapes AUCKLAND. May 7.

Thomas John Lewis, aged 17. an habitual criminal, who lias bec-n an inmate of the- Auckland ’.Menial Hospital for some time, escaped From the institution on Kunday morning. TTo \x*lts found hy Dotis-live Meiklejohn on Mon.lay in Grey Street. This is not Hie tir.-t occasion Lewis has walked ottl of till' Mental Hospital. 11l June last, he escaped, and retained his liberie until Detective Meiklejohn arrested a man for the tln-ft ol a, watch and chain. When brought to the defective office, the. man was recognised as Lewis, for xvlpim the police had been on the look-out. lie was brought before the Court, charged with theft and was returned in flic .Mental Hospital. Lewis is a man xx it Ii a list of criminal convictions recorded against him so many, in Ltd. that lie was declared hy the Supreme Court an habitual criminal. He is a man of medium build, five fed. 0 inches fall, round shouldered, walks with a slight H.,op and is freely fatoned on the arms. (in Sunday, when lie made his escape. le' had a “ginger" heard, hul jp was left kiioxxn hoxv Ik* was dressed. ill, made his escape bv gelling through the window of the building whore lie was located. To-day Detective Meiklejohn again recapture.l Lewis, this time in Grey Street. The heard had hex'll out shod and dyed, black, fix' informed the do t,stive that this was the third time he hail seoaped from the Mx-ntal TTopital. and that he had also twice oscaned from prison. IK' was returned to the institution this afix'-rnoon. A SIl'K CONVICT ESCAPES. AUCKLAND. May 7. tn March last, Archibald Scott, a young man. aged 21, and a prisoner r Mount Eden Prison, nerving a sea (,-uce for breaking, entering and then was. sent to Auckland Hospital, suffering from rheumatism. Ten days ago, la.-t Monday week, about seven o'clock in the x• x oiling. Scott donned clothing, including the bat and boots of another patient at the hospital and left the institution. Thai was the last that l|„. staff saw of him. and. though the police have been on he look-out few 11io escapee, lie still remains at large. He xxas sent to Auckland Prison from Wellington.

M \ \sLA J’G I ITER CHARGE. AUCKLAND. May 7. Arising out of tlx«.* death ot a man named Ricliffo in the City Hotel, about t hive week- ago. through an overdose of a drug. Gyoi'gt- Edward Barker (21) who was associated with deceased.'appeared at the Police Court this morning on a charge <>! vagrancx. asking that Barker he further re„uitided until May 14th. Chief Deicctixv Cummings stated that a chaige of manslaughter would be proferre-a against tlm accused on that date. Mr Moody, for Barker, -aid that iimler the circumstances he would not apply for bail. A remand was granted. BANKRUPT CRICKET COACH. WELLINGTON. May -. The ro.siiK of an examination oi Captain Vt. Bndcock. a cricketing coach, recently brought _ out by the local Cricket Association, was rather stirprismg. His unsecured creditors were shown at £4(58. and there were no assets. . . , “These debts.” the Assignee ‘■nui“were all incurred in iwo months, anc mnnv of them were of an extravagant nature. The bankrupt- bought. nto f expensive clothes, and such things ac mahjong sets, cocktail shakers, and a gramophone. As to the latter, it v.-,

suggested that he htul attempted )• sell it, though he had procured it or time payment, but this Bndcock dtp nied.''

In Ills statement, Badoock admitted being foolish and not appreciating the value of money, but said his salary of £270 per year was small, and be understood that- the Cricket Association xv as to find him some part-time employment. They had not done so, nor had ho been able to obtain any him.self. He also anticipated receiving some assistance from his father, hut ho was disappointed. During the examination, it appeared that there were other claims coming in from England, and the bankrupt also admitted having raised a number of .small loans privately, which he had not declared in his statement-. The Official Assignee, was instructed to place the case in the hands of tin; Crown Prosecutor. BANKRUPTCIES. WELLINGTON. May 7. The bankruptcies for 1921 totalled 070. This is a decease of four on 1927, and of 21 on 1922. The debts proved were C 707.997 and the assets tea Used Cl 18,0 10. I

CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN. CHRISTCHURCH. May >. At the inquest yesterday mi M.auda Ellen Bourne Webb, aged 71, married, the doctor xxas unable to give any n]>'inion as. To the eausx' oi death, auxl the inquest was adjourned for a post mortem. The husband and mother evidenced that, the woman had always enjoyed good health, hut became suddenly ill after eating a few mouthfuls ol stx-w. She went to bed and woke gronning at 7 a.in., dying within half an liour. | ,t i, wit nessos luul o«i !.< *n portion of ill,- same slew and had felt no ill elfecf s. DOMINION MORTGAGES. WELLINGTON, May 8. During the year ended March -71st mortgages io thx- x-nUix* of ,CJ 1, 1-! 1,1 (,0 xx,.,-,. i-cgisLx-i'x-d as against C7i.So2.lin in i In- preceding year. ’I hose discharged amounted to C 29.777.800 as against 022.2 10.712 last year.

111-: l-'U.C TIN' E R AII.WAY POINTS. WELLINGTON. May 8. living 1,1 detective railway points a giainlK xaii and some loaded trucks funipx-d the rails in the railxxay yard at I.ainln mi Si a Hull, hut the damage is ..mall. Tin- same points are asserted in )i,ive . auscil similar aen-ih-iiis 1.-elnre.