DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ABBN., COPYRIGHT. LINCOLN SHEEP BREEDERS. MASTEUTON, Aug. 12. The annual meeting of the Lincoln Sheepbreeders’ Association of New Zealand was held here to-day. The annual report said that after several years of gaining favour, a .sound export trade had been established with the Argentine. Last year eighty rams were consigned to that country, while this season to date 5(1 ranis and 17 ram hoggets had been exported. Further enquiries had been received for hoggets. The following officers were elected:— President. Mr W. Perry (Mustortou); vi<e-president, si r ];. Bremer (Waverley) ; treasurer, Mr D. McGregor (Mastorton); council, Messrs G. V. Smith (Gisborne). AY. 11. Gaisfurd (Dnnnevirke), A. 1). Mi-Master (Fcatherston) and A)’. If. AA'ybnrn (Whcnuakura). The meeting recommended to the Council to instruct the inspectors to enforce a high standard of quality before passing stock for export. ' CLERGYMAN VICTIMISED. KLTHA.M, Aug. 12. Ministers in Taranaki of all denominations have been called on recently by a man who pleaded poverty, said he was one of their flock, and thus obtained board and lodgings. His operations in Ml lha in were successful, three ministers taking pity on tin* shorn sheep in winter, but one accused the man of telling untruths and lie made a hurried exit from the town. He called on the .Mayor of Stratford, and told the same story with good results. Yesterday Constable Townsend of Kltbani arrested him in Stratford, and he was charged at the Klthnin Court 10-dav with being idle and disorderly. It was stated that as the ministers would not appear in Court, a charge of being a rogue and vagabond could not lie preferred. The man’s name was James Joseph Donnelly, and a list of convictions starling in I!)()(> for assault and robbery, and covering false pretences, drunkenness, vagrancy, breaches of prnhihii ion order and roguery was banded in. Accused said all the charges were due to drink. The prosecution said such acts marred the chances of a man really impecunious who called on ministers for assistance. The accused was sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. DUNEDIN. Aug. 12. Thirty-two fat sheep were killed in n railway accident at Burnside last night. A line of sheep-laden waggons was being shunted in for next, day’s sale. Through a mistake at the points, three trucks left the rails and fell on iheir sides. That was about 10.30 p.m. Immediately the railway staff, assisted by stockmen, commenced the work ot separating the dead sheep- I rotu the living. It was a difficult job. 1 sing crowbars, the men knocked tile ends out of tlie waggons and liberated the terrified animals. Thirty-two of the sheep were dead. The trucks are more or less damaged. MOTOR VICTIM. APCKI.AND. August 13. The death occurred at the Hospital to-nignt of Mrs Mary MacKenzie. aged 37, a visitor from Tangawahinc. as the result of a motor neeidont at Onelmngn this afternoon. .Mrs MacKeitzie. with her daughter Jean, aged 7. was about to leave the Tramway Shelter to hoard a tramear. when a motor truck, in attemnting to turn, skidded on the wet read, and crashed heavily into tin* shelter. .Mrs MacKenzie sniff rod a compound fracture of the thigh. Death resulted alien an operation. 'lb* l daughter was badly bruise,l. Others present in the shelter escaped. The shelter itself was considerably damaged. DETAILS OF LOBBY ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, August 13. An accident resulting in Hu* death of Betty D. thirty, aged 10 years, occurred this morning in the Great: North road. Grey Lynn. The girl was a pupi| attending SI. Joseph's Convent School, and she arrived by motor. The ’bus stopped opposite the school, and the girl alighted. She was walking in front of tlu- 'lnis in order to cross tile road. Just, as she did, one of the City Council’s four-ton lorries, driven b.v Edward 11. IVters, approached from behind, and was passing tlie 'bus, when the girl apparently realised her danger, ami attempted to step bark. She was wearing golf slices, and it is thought she slipped on tlie wet roadway "and fell under the lorry, one of the hack wheels passing over her head. Life was extinct when the doctor arrived. FARMER KILLED. TK AAY A.A IT" FT. August 14. Alfred AY. S. Jones, a farmer at Bo kuru. was killed last night as he was proceeding homo by car Irom ie AwamuLu. Evidently lie got out to crunk Hie engine which was left- m gear and the vehicle moved forward pinning him to the ground, sufloeation resulting. The body was found this morning below the ear by tlie roadman. Deceased leaves a widow and seven children and was widely known throughout the AAaikalo.