DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

or tbleoeaph—rsEaa assn., coptbioht. ELECTRIC LIU I ITS OFT. AUCKLAND, June 13. During a heavy blow last night, the electric power wires were blown down at Dovonport and Stanley Way. Both places were in darkness for about three hours till 8 p.m.. when repairs were effected. To-day is very cold, hut the sun is shilling. A'LKYIX PROTEST. WELLINGTON, dune 12. Protests from the J.evin district against the town being deprived of the mail train stops were heard hy Mr Coates, who had occasion to spealt strongly against any attempt to influence him on political considerations. Air Coates declared that the aim of the Department was to run the railways in a way that would give a good sorviie to the people as a whole. A voice: It is enough to put your man out. if your are not very careful. The Prime .Minister (emphatically): You won’t tincl me guilty of political ■onsnioralions, whether you hump my man or whether you do not, for not giving something I do not think you ire entitled to in the general interests >! Iha public. If you don't agree then tump him nut. and hump im> too (npdausci. I have very little patience lot hat or: of tin'll:.;. M a t 'oa: os app' .ih d to the depulaioti to look at the mailer in a sellable manner. They had to improve heir train -oiuhvs. Piikekohe and >t;s!- 1 :1 111 were plates where trains did au stop, and they were twice the .size 1 Levin. It was no use heating about he mulberry Ini.sli. The statistics bowed that within the last month or ix weeks an average of one and a half assengers went eastward from Levitt ml one and a half west,

Voices: !!v Ims. Mr (.'nates: .Vo. by train. There had been a good deal of dissatisfaction in Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay, lie added, over tile express train service.-, v.'htcli alter all had been provided for the i onvoiiiouee of those districts. Thai was a ,oiisideratioti that must be given attention to. A .JOCK KY'S DKATII. DI'XKOI X, .tune 12. The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Percy Keene, the jockey who died as the result of injuries sustained through a fall in a hurdle race while riding Captain Sarin on the second day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meeting tit Wingaiui. concluded to-day. The Coroner. Mr .1. I!. Bartholomew, in reviewing the evidence said that it appeared that Captain Sarto failed to rise at the third hurdle and deceased was thrown and was struck hy the bool's of another horse. The evidence showed that the hurdles were constructed and erected according In standard and similar hurdles were in use in Auckland. Criticism had been levelled at the type of hurdles in u-o at Wiugatui. which acre rigid, whereas the hurdles at Kiccartou and Wellington were non-rigid. 11• ■ did not think this a Heeled the present case. It appeared to him to have been pure misadventure, and there was nothing in the racing conditions that contributed To it. There was an clement, of risk in all sport. The verdict would he that deceased's death was due to a fractured skull with complications of meningitis, laused by lu-ing kicked hy a bor.se at the Dunedin .locket ( lull’s meeting on June I.

G! i A X!) STAND GXHOOKEIL WAXGANGI. Jui.r I Til - snnthoily pale <>t I Ills morning ga i borer I force i!llrii«i lie ;ift I'l’ilooii, ;iin! At t 1 Yin. i. i In* iiini: l lo~ of .Ur W. !,. Young' || ,i|-r- near 1 1, • t/mi 1 .■nitniil were -lartled liy a lreni"n<!i• i I oollimmHmn oil I heir roof. hly.'Slion j ion showed that. tlr* whole of iYmol of I I," new stand had been hodilv lilted mill deposited on Air Young’s house. Wry little damage w’as done In Mr i mill f:, dwelling, w!uto iron sheets and beams still repose, being viewed diseonsidately by represen tai i ves of (lie I’ugby I'nion. The stand faces the prevailing wind. WiXTIi V STOLMS. WEI.I.IXTGON, June M. There is a southerly gale. |i lots inferl'ereti with -hipping. All the. small vessels are still in port. They are unable to tare the I reinentlous sea thai is now runing in the Straits. The sons are Invoking many, many

Jt is stated that ihe presenl L mu of the heaviest, tittles ever experieneei in Ihe vicinity of AVellingluu. Among the huge vessels due lo arrive is Ihe New Zealand Company’: steamer Orari. which has wire lessor tlial she is hove to in ihe Straits, waiting for the v.euHo.r to moderate, is expected to make port on Monday. Tho Nelson ferry steamer Kaitoa, ol 3|! I tons, left Nelson last night for Wellington. Site was due this morning. I>ut has made no appearanee. fi is believed that site is sheltering on (lie southern side of the Straits, she

carries .no wireless. The Arahtira let I’ieton lor Wettington. hut she eneottniered stteh heavy seas that she returned to prut. WAXGANU. I mte 11. Wild weather continues here. During fhe early hours of Sunday. ihe wind blow with hurricane force, accompanied by heavy rain. Ihe temperature is low. and renditions Generally are unpleasant. ciircisTcrrrHCii. .imm ls. Yesterday's southerly storm developod into one o! the wilds-1 nights experieneei! in Chris'icluirch for a lona'

tie. At intervals, heavy showers ol hail, sleet am! rain passed over the city, and throughout the wind maintained a very high velocity. It was still very wintry to-day. v. it h a pood deal of rain and sleet. VIOF.-i; KG A 1,. GIIRTSTCIiriUi. .lime 13. Lady Alice Fergusson inspected the Hoy Scouts and Girl Guides in the Calodon'an Hall on Saturday nftetlioon. The Governor-General (who is the Dominion Chief Scout) was unable to he present owing lo indisposition. There was a big turnout, for which Her Lxcolloiha cxpt-s-id eroat admiration. I.ady Alice il; .- n visited the Public Hospital. the Soldiers' Sanatorium mi C nshmcrc Hills, and the Kaunerdale Home tor Soldiers. WAT ERsd DLL'S D KATII. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 13. George Cursons. witterstder. who fell down the hold ot the lougnriro on Thursday afternoon, died at the hospital last night.