DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

ment in connect ion with ihe Hull Valley settlement scheme. With reflat'd to the colist flirt ion of new buildings for the Newmarket -hops, a site ha- keen obtained at Otalilihil. oil the sea side Ot 111,- railway between Oiahuliii and Manger,- railway stations. "I an area ~t lt)->] fe re-. I I,esc shops "ill he used as locomotive works, and a- in I lie CII-C of the Eetone -hops, will be equipped with the most up-to-date electrically driven machinery. Drawings are now well in hand, and lenders will he (ailed for the build-iie-.s in the near future. So lar a- the shops at \ddingloti ami Hillside are cnin erned. the pre--ent sites an- suitable for the purposes ,| cMieieiii rearrangement. As already stated, the former will he used as car nid waggon shops, and the latter as 0.-omolive shops. Tenders have nl■eailv been invited for i ~,del'll maclilu'i'.v rei|iiired in connect inn with gen■ral rearrangements, ami the work rill he pushed on in no ordauco w ith he programme outlined in the Railways Statement. IT IE IT’ I'RO.M THEATRE.

DUNEDIN. Kept. :{. V* lieu .Mrs Kell,on. ~f "The Kell,mis" acrobatic dancing act at the Erin,ess Theatre, returned to her dressing r>> in la.si right. she found an intruder there. This was a young man. and he was crouched in a e ,filer a - l hough not d. -ii-„u. of being noticed. 11 is explain! I 101 l was | hat he had

come to see another artist, and hail gei into the w long room, lie wns'iowti til,* artist's room. Gut in (In meantime Mr Sdhou had returned, and on being told of the oo itrreliee heeu me stispi, ioits. A search of his pn.-kets ol his 1 1 ,ill-er.s. w hich had ho.-ii banging in the room, eoulinneil hi- suspicions, lor ttv,, £.*> notes which had been there were missing. D did not take long for Mr Kellion 1:1 he e,ii the track ol the visitor, who confessed to the tin It of the notes, retii t Hed them, and pleaded to he al!"W'"1 I" K". but- he was handed over Die polite, and this morning ho a| pea re, I before Mr R. Bartholomew S -. M-. charged with the theft of the '"O'XA His name is (hath- Alexander Moore, and he i- a diminutive individual of twenty-two years ~f age.

Kub-lusp, *,■!,, r ft' | lallnra ii asked lor a relll it lid. The ne,-Used. he said, had ■' li't. ami had irq been long re-lea-'d alter a term of reformative ! tea, men t. Judging I,\ the manner in "h" h he had a nsw or,*J ,pi,-s| i,,i,s this iii'oning. he was "a hit funny"; that '■'■a' to sax . it wits possible that lumen ta! ' olidi t ion v*. a- a,,( n*irinal. Accused was remanded untii Kepi I j I f'H). f< T Hid 1 n*i I I iv: 11 iu< 11 { | CAR K11.1.K K111*; EE. DUNEDIN. K, |.. :t j ■List ai daw n this mo; ning a mot■ irra ii ini' * a (! f *ek of ;|,'*‘) sheep on i In- Main North |[. ml. Nonh-ea-t \ almid ! w **ii ty-l'i m r ~f t hem wire ‘•'l-ib'r killed out right ~r s * badly hurt Dial a si >rrd\ (Ic.it Ii was I In* only pos'ihle delivet'anr,* from their pain. T he drover, in a st aiemi'liI. -a id I hat Ihe ml-ban rcmrivd in ah'iut 1.21) a.m. D "a- a misty grey morning. and daw it was 111-! a I hale). I!c -aw the light-- el D-- appiMaeliitig motor-,,r

coming up from the gardens, when the il"ek wa- nearing Erame Street, and whistling tile dogs to his belli, lie tried I . (1.-, sheep I i t side of thr i '.:el. 'I he ear. bowel or. went right into i lie si nil", mg. le: riti.■ d animals, and a -. ore of I bom were killed. 3 In- driver -a i I hr did not see the j sheep till he wa- right on them, and i! Was i lien too bit" to stop. The Ia reases we I e gather-.il together. and heaped on a. vaeaui section at Ihe cornier of Elaine Street. They presented a gruesome sight, lying there nil the wet, blond-soaked ground. Many of I boot were bioilv smashed about.

The sheep bad been on the read for some days and this morning they had conic from near .Vnrinaiihy. GANGSMAN'S SI'KTDE. INVERCARGILL. Sent. I. A middle aged man. 'William Joseph Siddel, was found dead in the Garrison Hand rooms. Levin Street, la-i evening. The p-diec received a call from the band rooms and on arrival gas was turned mi. and indications pointed to suicide bv g«- peisuning. Siddell bad been a resident ot Invercargill for many years, and was well known in local band circles. An implcsl will be held.

[nr TSLrcßiPH—pku press association.] RAILWAY SHOES. GOVERNMENT'S EROGRaMME. WELLINGTON, Sept. .1. The lion -I. G. Coates, .Minister of Railways, has handed to the Dross a .statement show ing tho | regress of the Railway Department's workshops reorganisation scheme, which provides lor concentration on four main shops, i wool which, those at Newmarket and Detune, are new shops creeled on modern lines ami on new sues. Mr Coates has now stated that an ai'-ei of aproximately sixty acres adioining 11 11 1 1 I’ark raceour-e Inis been -ei apart for the Eecone shops irom an I recently taken l,v lhe Govern-