DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TBLUGBAPH —PBESH AHSN , COPYRIGHT. BRITISH BOWLERS COMING. HAMILTON, Juno 20. The Secretary of the International Bowling Board at Edinburgh has cabled the Secretary of the Dominion [Smiling Association mat the International Board accepts the Dominion Bowling Council's invitation. A parly of II players and twelve ladies are leaving tor Australia on 2oth. September, reaching New Zealand towards the end of December for six week-. This is the first official inti-

mation received in respect to the proposed visit, and a reply has been sent ennlirining the tour.

HOUSE PARTIALLY DESTROYED STRATFORD.' Juno 25.

A bouse in the Borough owned and erinpicd Mrs K Hudson was part tally Jest ro\. .| carle this morning by a

lire, which had a good Imlil when the alarm was given. A strong wind was blowing and this endangered the adjoining properties. The brigade made a goal save l hough the hack portion of the building was destroyed. The contents of the front portion were ruined. The insurance on the building is C7l) ) and on luruitiire £l_>OI). The other furniture, owned hy her son-in-law. who also occupied the house, was covered hy a small policy. FLOODS IX Til E NORTH. HEAVY LOSS OF STOCK. ' WIIAKATAXE, June 26. The biggest Ihv.d yet occurred here yesterday and to-day, great areas ol ILiugitaiki being under water. Heavy loss of stack, especially pigs and sheep is reported. The Whakutano and Knugitaiki overflowed and all commi, ideations with the town has keen cut oil. No mails have arrived or left the town. At Taucutua two men in a milk cart were swept olf the roads and had n narcoiv escape, being rescued with great iliHiciilty hy means ol rop-es. The settlers spent an anxious time last night and many had to leave I heir homes. Passengers from Rotorua had to spend Ihe night at Teteko. The weather is line to-day. ’I he water is receding.

£2 PER WFF.K FOB MORPHIA. CHRISTCHURCH, 'June 27. At a meeting of the Social Welfare tiuild yistcrday. Mrs Herbert said: •‘1 have noticed, with alarm, the increase of drug addin- in Ihc Dominion. It. is really terrible to think just how llie habit is getting a hold amongst sonic people. Recently I came across a case in which a woman was getting £2 worth of morphia every week. She was buying it from a chemist in Christchurch and had no dillicitlty whatever in getting it."

TiIKFT OF MONEY. M ASTER TON. June 26. "These people have abused hospitality, which this country always extends to .strangers and that within a short time of their arrival. If I send them to goal, the punishment will he felt by innocent children. It is undesirable to have them living in the district. and I accept counsel’s word that they will leave it immediately.” Thus -Magistrate Free addressed two foreign women, Rachael Anna Krist and Mary Rosa Krist, when convicting them and ordering them to conic lip for 'sentence if called upon within twelve months on a charge ol theft arising out. of an incident which occurred in the Club Hotel, Grey town, last Monday, when forty pounds were extracted from a safe. The two defendant are mem Iters of a family of sixteen Greeks who arrived in New Zealand three weeks ago. and have since been leading a gipsy life encamped on the bank of the Waigawa river, three miles from -Masterton, and whose principal occupation lias been scouting the countryside telling fortunes.

! The police stated that the accused induced the hotel licensee’s wife to have her hands ready for producing paper money to create an “ atmosphere of the future." She disclosed a roll of sixty pounds. One of the accused then eommendetf the subject to look her straight in the face. What happened after that is a mystery, but some time after the publican found that forty pounds was missing. The women were waylaid at a railway

station and almost all of the money was recovered. The accused pleaded guilty and agreed to make full restitution of the missing money. In convicting the accused the Magistrate said they must leave the district at once.