DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. RFRGLARY CHARGES. IH XFDfX, July 27. Yesterday morning, while the Rev. Knowles Kcmnton and his family were at church, a young man called at his house. The stranger was seen liy neighbours to linger at the door, and it was; afterwards found that the place had been burglariously entered. On the discovery being made a description of the visitor was given to the police. As is usual in most of these eases, the description was of the slightest, hut it proved sufficient for Detectives fleer and Rycroft, who this morning accosted a young man, a stranger to the city, and after interrogating him took him to the police station. That their suspicions were well founded was proved hv the " swag that was afterwards traced to his possession. This included a large number of loose gems, obviously removed from rings, several sovereigns and half-sovereigns, a large number of foreign coins and other articles. totalling in value somewhere between L'3oo and CIOO. So far as can be ascertained up to the present, accused has probably been concerned in about twenty burglaries committed in all four centres of the Dominion and in smaller towns. Accused will be brought before the Court, to-morrow morning ami charged in connect ion with local cases. RAXKRFI’TCY ACT. PA L.MKRSTOX NORTH, July 27. In the Police Court Cyril Non I bye. settler, Auckland, formerly in business in Palmerston North. was charged under the Bankruptcy Act. that within three years of being adjudged a bankrupt, be bad by means of a false statement of bis affairs, obtained on credit goods to tbe value of t_'st) : that be did quit New Zealand with money that ought to have been divided among Ids creditors; and that he did dispose ot stock in trade otherwise than in the ordinarv course of business. Accused pleaded not guilty, and was commit led for trial. Rail was allowed.

IS AXK RF PT ( 0-R FSPOXI >F.XT. WELLINGTON. July 27. George Vance Shannon, a shepherd at Tnwata, applied in Hie l olirt for discharge from bankruptcy. There was only one creditor. Matticm Sareicli. who obtained l.'loUl damages from bankrupt as 10-iv-'pondent in a divorce The Official Assignee, in a statement set out that prior to the divorce bankrupt was solvent, "immediately damage's were awarded,” he said, "lie appears to have got rid of all hi- assets and to have spent bis cash recklessly.'' In bis opinion, bankrupt should lie compelled to make some elliirt to comply with the judgment. The motion was stood down In ascertain whet her tile debtor consented to judgment being entered against bint for C 259.

HOSPITAL HOARD DEFALCATION'S CHKISTCHRCH. July 23 A warrant lias been issued for the arrest of an ex-member of the clerical staff of the .North Canterbury Hospital Hoard. It is stated that the defalcations amount to a fairly considerable sum. FARM MRS’ COXFMR KXCF. \VKLLIXOTOX, July 23 The i wciity-fnurtb annual Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Fnion comiiH'iK'ed this morning. .Mr R. J. Poison presiding over a larg" attendance of delegates from all over the Dominion. At the outset a resolution was passed lamenting I lie loss through death of Mr Alu-ey. The Governor-Genera I opened the conference with an .address, in which he alluded to Ihe patriotic action of the New /calami Farmers' Fnion during i he War, and said that if we were to do our duty to the Old Couidry. we must recognise Unit wo should have to absorb some of its surplus populut ion. Mr Poison's presidential address was then delivered. BISHOP WASTED. ( ITRIFTCIinK 11, July 23 111 its second venture to obtain a Bishop for the diocese of Christchurch, the Anglican Synod has met with a partial failure. A member o! the c!erg\ in Hnglaml. whom the Synod, sitting in conference, lavoitred as a suitable man, has rel'usod the oiler. " You can say that the delegation appointed liy the Synod Inis met with disappointment, in its first attempt,’ said the Dean of Christchurch, when asked if a reply had been received to an offer which was presumed to have been made relative to the Bishopric. The delegation reierred to liy the Dean consists of Mr H. D. Anderson (Chancellor), Canon Galway (Registrar) and Dean Carrington (.as Bishop Commissorv). FOUND DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH. July 28. The hotly found in Lyttelton Harbour on .Monday, has been identified a.s that of J. A. Beef, a lireman on the Kawatiri. who was missing when Hie vessel sailed for Sydney on June ]7>. The deceased was a married man. with a family, residing in Sydney. At the .inquest a verdict wrvs returned of lound drowned.