DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON’,S FLOODS. ASH BURTON, July I. The Hood in the river is subsiding and traffic has been resumed on the main south road. There is not material damage anywhere. IMPERIAL PRESS DELEGATES. NEW PLYMOUTH, July ■!. Taranaki has now been included in the itinerary of the Imperial Press Conterenco 'deleg;;!te- who will Visit the Dominion during file latter half o! August. The party, numbering over forty, will arrive at Auckland and travel via Rotorua and Taupe to Wellington, returning via New and Te ICuiti to embark agaii- at Auckland for Sydney, the trip covering ten days. INQUEST. DUN EDI X, July O. At the inquest on William floury Divett, aged AO, a verdict was returned of accidental death. -MAN FATALLY CRUSHED. CHRISTCHURCH. July ~>. • lames Perhnni. a married man, ol I ravers Road, lUirwood, was crushed between a repair train and a trailer yesterday afternoon, and died in the hospital late last night, lie was a painter liv trade.

FAl’.Tl 1 QUA K K AT OAMARU. OA.MABC. .Inly A. A vigorous shock of earthi|Uake was left here at ft.AO o'clock on Saturday night. TRAVELLING FARM SCHOOL, OAM A Rl', duly 5. A travelling larm school, organised by the Agricultural Department, eoneluded a ten-days' tour of Canterbury and North Otago at Oamartt on Saturday. Hundreds of local farmers turned out to hear the addresses In- the experts on the fertility of pastures, wheat-growing, diseases in stock, poultry ral.-ing, etc., and the school was a pronounced success. I XDLPF.X DFXOF. DAV. WELLINGTON, duly o. There were many callers on the l tiitod States Cciisitl-Gencral on the Anniversary of American independence Day, A WONDERFUL ESCAPE. WALMATF. July I. -Mr F. d. .Meredith, of .Morven, and a party returning from Oamant on Thursday, upon reaching ihe Wnitaki bridge, had tin escape from a disaster, the like of which is a favourite theme with writers of fiction. The party were about half way across the- bridge, when the mid-day express was sighted approaching the bridge from the other direction. .Meredith increased ihe speed of the car. and he managed to reach the end of the bridge ju.-t a few seconds ahead of the train. This is the lirsi time that the gates over (he bridge, have Irocii open long enough to allow a car to enter when a (min ha- been nproaching. hut Mr Meredith .-Lutes that he is making represent at ions to the Railway Department.