DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

■ BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ABSN , COPYRIGHT TARANAKI OIL OPERATIONS. NEW PLYMOUTH. Aug. 25. Taranaki Oilfields Ltd. reports that . at the Taratu Hire three thousand feet I | of 81 in. casing has been put in. Drill- - ing is about to be resumed. At Mo- ■ I luma, the Hire lias boon drilled to ( 1771 foot and showed oil in sandy shale at 1625 feet, from 1640 feet there was a show of oil and gas in sand, from 1690 to 1964 feet gas sand was met to 1771 feet. There was sandy shale with a show of gas from 1740 to 1750 feet. manawatu drowntno tragedy. PALMERSTON N.. August 25. The search for the remaining bodies of the victims of the drowning tragedy at Manawatu Heads was continued all day yesterday and this lit'riling without result. Advice received by rehuives here yesterday that the bodies of two hoys had been found was incorrect. The weather on the coast is very rough. ■V PROSECUTION FAILS. WESTPORT. August 25. Tn the Magistrate’s Court to-day. the ease Samuel Tyson (Inspector of Awards) v. the Millerton Miners’ Union, a claim for CICO as a penalty for ait alleged incitmcnt to an unlawful strike, came on again, the plaintiff on last court day having been nonsuited for failing to prove his status as plaintiff. When the plaintitf's ease closed today. Mr J. Moloney (Counsel tor the defendants) stated that the onus of proof was on the plaintiff to show that he was acting within the four corners of the Act. and he had not proved that tlie action came within Section 3 ol the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. 1913. The Magistrate upheld the point of Air .Moloney, and non-suited the plaintiff, reserving the question ol costs. A claim against \\ illiam Clarke, a member l| l the* .Millerton Minets Union, for £lO in connection with the same trouble was partly heard. and inis adjourned till Thursday, as tiie plaintiff was unable to continue his case without the evidence ol the Mine Manager, who had not been subpoenaed. OBITUARY. WKI.LI NOTO.N, August 26. 'flie dentil has occurred of Mr Alfred .Inly, the (tcncral Manager of the National Bank nt New Zealand. death under anaesthetic. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 25. William James Edgar, aged 45. a | dairyman, living at Siem-orville. died in a private hospital last night, while under an anaesthetic for an operation. I'he operation was almost complete at l [i,. time of collapse. A post mortem examination will he made and an inquest held. WANGANUr WOOL SALES. WANGANUI. Aug. 27. . A crutchings sale was held to-day, , one thousand bales being submitted to a full liencli of buyers. Tin- quality generallv was from inferior to medium, and tlie condition heavy, with seed | much in evidence, hut good lots were offered, and were well on a par with i the rates ruling at Napier and Mel- ; lington. Best lots made B.td to 9 1-4(1 ; per Ih.. medium parcels bringing (id to 7:JiL Interior and low grades sold remarkably well, and wore relatively , dearer than the good lines. Japanese , and Australian buyers operated freely. | and took practically all the good lines. « A MAORI LEPER. < WANGANI'L Aug. 25. ] A Maori, aged 22. suffering from leprosy, has been brought to Manga- | uni Hospital from an up-river settle- , meat. The victim has been afllicted > for six vears, and all his toes have now dropped off. Some anxiety is felt by the authorities that other natives at tbe settlement have been contaminated, t CLERK CHARGED WITH FRAUD c. DANNEYIR.KK. Aug. 25. Cvril Henry Osborn Lane, a clerk. ) fuinierlv employed in tin' Ons Depuilinent of tlie Danneviike Borough (nun- < oil, was committed to the Supreme j Court, for trial on three charges of til- t legcd theft of £l6 odd, one charge allegedly fraudulently omitting to record t gas used hv him. and a charge also ] of allegedly falsifying the gas consumers' ledger with intent to defraud. ] He was admitted to bail. VICTIM OF QUA itRY EXPLOSION. NELSON Aug. 25. The young man Darcy Mieliell. who j was injured by tin explosion in I’iwaka | Valley last week, lias succumbed to ’ his injuries. j REQUESTS TO CHARITY. < ■NELSON, Aug. 25. < Airs Elizabeth Sanders has bequeath- , ed the following legacies, free of du- ■ ties: £SOO to the Nelson Diocesan Tins- | tees Rout'd of the Home and Foreign ; Missions; LIOD to the AYelsey Church ; Home Missions: CSOO to the Salvation Armv for New Zealand Charitable , work: £2OO to St. Andrew’s Orphanage. Nelson. . DAMAGES i'-ntl. AUCKLAND. Aug. 26. , After legal 'argument Justice Herdman upheld the jury's award of £350 damages for Hugh Gardiner, a miner. (the father of the youth killed) against Puketniro Collieries Ltd., on which Mr Findlay had moved for a lie,', trial or non-suit on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to establish negligence. Judgment was entered for £350 to lie divided between the father and mother of deceased. £l5O tiud £2OO respectively. POLITICIAN'S AND BUSINESS. CHRISTCHURCH. August 20. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Employer-. Association. Mr C. M. Ollivier. the new president said: "If Henry Ford had been ill New Zealand I believe he would have been hounded out of the country. He might have survived if lie had contributed to the party funds or procured money for parte funds, or he might have got a knighthood. He might also have floated his business into a limited liability company and chosen as directors men who are politeians and thus have secured immunity from attack and probably have been able to use the maehinerv of Government to attack his trade competitors.” STORMY DAIRY SUPPLIERS MEETING. HAMILTON. August 26. At the annual meeting ot the suppliers of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Coy there was an unusually large attendance, at times their being stormy scenes. I he tone of the meeting was favourable. 5 he directors report was submitted, hut the auditors' report contained some serious allegations. hut as it was stated that the report was only handed in a few minutes prior to the meeting and that the directors had not an opportunity to consider it. permission to publish it was withheld. The report and balance sheet were adopted with only three dis- . sentients. The motion to reappoint the present auditors was defeated and . an Auckland firm was appointed in their stead. Notices of motion to alter a certain article of association and ' divide one of the wards in the rom--1 patty’s district was defeated. DANGER TO SHIPPING. r WELLINGTON. August 26. The following message was broadcasted from Soerabaja at 4.15 to-day;—

Wreck, dangerous to navigation, no masthead, floating 2 degrees 53 north, one hundred degrees 22 east.

THUNDERSTORM AT BLENHEIM TM’O XARROM' ESCAPES. BLENHEIM, August 26. There was a heavy thunderstorm last evening accompanied by a deluge of rain. Two narrow escapes during the height of the electrical .storm are reported. G. M'. Jones, of Islington, was feeding his ducks in his orchard when the tins lie was carrying were struck by lightning which wrapped around him like a hall of fire. He was uninjured ami puts his escape down to the fact that he was wearing rubber hoots which served as insulation. A titan named Horace Bush, was riding a motor cycle, on the old Ronwick Road, when the machine was struck by lightning which played around it for some seconds, finally stopping the engine dead. Bush also was uninjured except that he suffers front shock. At Spring Creek If inches of rain fell in an hour. A curious feature of the storm was the heavy fall of hail over a small area of a few square feet at Islington. The [tail in this spot was still lying inches deep tin’s morning, but there was none anywhere else in the vicinity. The weather is now fine, hut very cold. Heavy snow fell on the lulls during the night.