DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

(IIY TELEGRAPH PFH PRESS ASSOCIATION MORTGAGES AIT. A I'CK LAN D. May Pi.

Strapping vnung larmers with mortgages and debts mi-limbering their ell'orts. returned soldiers who were led to undertake responsibilities that have proved burdensome, others who were carried away in the boom time by the tide of investment in land at high prices, and aUo rcureseaitaiives ol money-lending olliccs and institutions were to he seen in great strength at the Supremo Court buildings to-day.

The occasion was the Auckland sitting of Mr -Instil e I (asking's Court for the consideration ol application- lor the determination of reasonahle mortgage terms under the Mortgages Final Extension Act ol the last session ol Barliameiit. The sittings in the city will eunlinue until all the applications tiled in the local Suoreuie Court olliee have been dealt with. These numbered originally about 2SI I, hut formal noliic was given of v, it liilrii wal or seLt lenten t in UK) eases. NEGLIGENT DRIVING. A I'CK LAND. May Lb Stanley Alfred Rule, a motor 'bndriver, was found not guillv of manslaughter. arising out ol the death ol Mrs Watts. who was knocked down in I roadway in January 111 and died from injuries. I lie jury. however, found accused guilty on a second charge of negligently driving a molor-’bus thereby causing All's Watts's death. The iiirv expressed the opinion that a considerable amount of responsibility for the accident attached itself to the unfortunate woman who was killed, and asked that t his he taken into account. They recommended accused to merev oil account of this and his youth. Sentence was delerred until Monday. DAIRY CONTROL. DUNEDIN. May 11. The Executive of the South Island Dairy Association has decided to nominate air F. Waite as a candidate directlv to represent the producers al. (It ago on the Dairy Control Board. MAN LOSES FOOT. eiiiMSTcnrucii May i">. Through, the collision between a motor car and a train last evening at Fernxido. near Rangiora. William Slieiferil, a lahoiirer. married, lest his lett foot. The accident was due to fug. The driver of the car, R. Dalziel, escaped uninjured.

DEATH FROM, HERNS. W A IMA TIC .May II

The Stipemlary .Magistrate, Mi E. I). .Mosley coroner i ret rued a verdict of death as the result of burns on Eliza belli Gertrude Owen, aged 70. a widow. Evidence was given that deceased had been taken out of bed. and left wrapped in a quilt beside the file, wild later it was found the quill was on lire. Death occurred nexi day. A PRESS VIEW. CH 1! tSTCI I CRCII. -May 15. The “Times'' this morning referring to the situation created by the dentil of Mr Massey, says a revision of the party grouping is one ol the probable developments of the near Intnre Speeches of Relornior.s and Liberals in dicatc they agree eomerning il:c man needs of the country. Common sense suggests that an ell'ort be made to find a basis of a new National i.iber.tl Ratty. It believes the basis a! l v exists, and the main lines el policy could be written almost at a moment's notii e. floods at tafmakfnci. TAI'MARFNFE May 15. An exceptionally heavy raintall. accompanied by lightning and thunder was experienced hst night. S;x point eighty-one inches have iallen sime Tuesday, and there wa.s a rapid rise in the Wanganui. Yesterday morning the liver laid risen over three teet. but when the rain ceased it tell. Last night there was a heavy downpour, however, which caused the river to rise live feet above its usual level at nine o'clock. Between ton and eleven o'clock the river rose another loot and only tne protective groynes saved the lower poition of the town from llooou.

V wash-out on the main highway, about six miles north ot laumarunui, cut olf connect ion with Ohura and To Kuiti. and later it was reported communication north and south became blocked by washouts at Dio in South and laiingnmotu in the north. The rain is easing off at present. OLD WOMAN KILLED. INVERCARGILL. Way 15. .Mrs Archibald Me Ewan, aged eighty, was knocked down by a motor driven l,v a youth last evening, sustaining a fracture of both legs and arms. She was removed to the hospital where she succumbed an hour later,