DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[DY TELLGHAI'H —PISH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. T’E AWAMPTP. .May 11. A distressing fatality is reported from Koraknnui settlement, some miles hack from Te Awaimitu, tliis inoniing. resulting i:t the 18-mouths old child of Mr Rob-ert Wyllie being hunted to death. Mr Wyllie was away at the time, and bis wife was attending to the farm duties. About 7 o’clock, she went out to the milking shed, leaving the child asleep in its cut, and a lire smouldering in the grate. She was engaged milking for nearly two hours and on returning she discovered the dwelling was well ablaze, and any approach to it was impossible, the child being burned to death. The dwelling was of live rooms, and was insured in the State Office, the amount being unknown. Deceased was their only child, a buy aged 18 months. OTA 1U protest. OTAKI. May 12. A hugely attended public meeting vesterday decided 1o enter a very strong protest against the suggested closing of Otaki Hospital. I-ISIIING TROUBLE. THAMES. May 12. The li-hing trouble is not vet settled. I nlormat ion received to-day says that Auckland merchants refuse to pay the big! r price demanded, l hits coming into line with the Thames Companies. \Lo that plenty of fish is available at Auckland. Two tons of iisli were landed here last night and caused a considerable demoust rat ion at the wTiarl, the police having to be called in to prevent violence. It i- alleged that intimidation is being used to prevent (ertain men going fishing.

TOKO.MAR P BAY DISPUTE. OTSBORNE. May 12. An absolute denial of the allegations of viet imisatiun of the slaughtermen concerned at Tokomaru Bay freezing works was given this morning l>v the Chairman of Directors of Gisborne SheopfarintTs’ Coy., ,7. AY. Nolan. He said work was available for the men a.s soon as they were prepared to take it. The position with regard to the man over whom the trouble arose was. that for the past four or live years he had been employed at. Hie Tookmaru works. He commenced work this year and then I"ft of his own account to go to Watpaon. Alter three weeks there lie went to Wnirmi and worked short time, lie then returned to Tokomaru. In the meantime another man had previously been engaged and started work a day or two atlei the other had made application. No further men were required and the man was not therefore given a .mb. Tin* mini nj>pro:u-lm<l his own <nm-nul.-s and askn.l tTioni to c mim oui on strike, hut they refused and il was only after a vi-it of the Union Secretary that they did so. The inspector of Factories is proceeding against seventeen employees for Icing parties to Hie strike. Ibe case will be beard on J une iltli.

\ PUT’ ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND. May IP A hydraulic lift in Wandsworth Buildings. Anzae A vein:.-, nearing completion. was ascending when il fell from the third lloor. The passengers were Peter Sinclair (cat-pent w) and William Civil (foreman). Sinclair received slight concussion and injuries kis foot, with a severe slinking, and was admitted to th- Hospital. <i' H was treated in the casualty waul. He received a fractured ankb- and a ->mki n;4. SYSTEM vne THIEVING. AUCKLAND, May 12. 1,, the . barges again-!. Mmii'n and |.-|yun. cot 111-el lor accused asked for teiii-m v owing to the a—sist given l,v I hem 111 tlie recovery el tie- stolen property. Justice Alpcfs remarked that LTo:, v.ortii ol stolen goods had never lean lound. The charges involved a series el bold. siiveossfttl thieving. M unrn had entered business estahlisli,C ~its at Aueklaml and Wellington and Stolen Is valued at A 121 A. To sug- ■ est tliat i'll n i sli men t should !:<• lightin a ease like this was unthinkable. Shopkeepers had a right to expect the law would protect their goods. There had been systematic thieving and the punishment must he severe. Munro was sentenced to five years and Flynn to three veals hard labour. supreme court SENTENCES. AUCKLAND. May 12. \t the Supreme Court. Judge Alpe’rs sentenced Mark Rehber for assault to eighteen months prison. Laurie Ormond .McDermott, for theft a.s a servant, to two years probation and to refund £AI>. John Edward Ramsay and Chan Shiev Fong, too breaches of the Bankruptcy Act to come up for renter.c,. if called upon. On a third charge to three years probation. Reginald Weymi•* Askew, for rt-eiving stolen property to three months gaol, b rank Rotter, for carnal knowledge of a girl under fifteen, to three years hard labour. Robert Heaton Munro am Daniel Thomas Flynn for breaking and entering and theft, the former to five years hard, and the latter to three rears’ hard labour, respectively.

.1 PPGIt'S STRAIGHT TALK. AICKI.AND. May I'd

In .sentencing Frank Potter to three years' hard labour for carnal knowjudge of a girl under 15. .Judge Alpers said: ‘‘l hope the lalwmr will he hard enough and the fare simple enough to cleanse the liltti that courses through voiir veins for honest blood, and that when you emerge from prison you will have learned that to defile a girl of 14 is not a man’s pari."