DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

B 7 TKLEOttAPH—r’iEHS ABBN , COPTKIOHT. THE ESCAPED LEOPARD. AUCKLAND, Sept. 24. The City Council decided to-night to offer a reward of £2O for the escaped leopard alive and £lO for it dead. No trace of the animal has Ik.-iui discovered during the last two days. A propositi to use the Pakurimga Hunt Hounds in the search has been abandoned in the meantime as the country is too rough. BULL INJURES A MAN. DUNEDIN. September 21. Whilst attending to a bull on bis lather's property at llelcnstirook. Milton, yesterday evening, Mr David Russell, j 1 was serious attacked by the animal, which tossed him in the air and afterwards trampled on him whilst he was lying on the ground. Mr Russell sustained a fracture of the left leg. He was medically attended to and conveyed by this morning’s ex-

press for an X-ray examination at Dunedin Hospital.

CHARGE DISMISSED. DUNEDIN, September 2-1

Charges against William Anderson, and Hugh McCann, sawmill employees, at Tahakopa, of keeping liquor for sale in the no-license district of Chitlin were heard to-day at Owake hpiore Mr 11. J. Dixon S.M. After bearing evidence which indicated that the liquor was brought into the district in quantities, and the purchasers treated their friends at parties, each buying a consignment in turn, the Magistrate dismissed the ease, saying that he was satisfied the defendants were able to afford the liquor. SWABODA'S TRIAL. CLARK RETURNS TO N.Z. WIXI.INGTO.N. Sept. 25. Air AY. O. Clark, the N.Z. soldier who went to Cologne to give evidence against Swaboda has returned. He was only 18 minutes in the witness box and Swaboda was convicted, the death sentence being afterwards commuted. After Clark left. Rotlie, the other man who was with Swaboda. also was captured. Chirk was in ill-health when lie left and has returned very weak. ATT lEN 1C ARRIVES. CHICKENPON AND MEASLES. AUCKLAND. September 23.

The Atheiiie, which arrived from Southampton to-day. brought 380 English. Scottish and Irish immigrants. Of tin- total, 123 will remain in the Auckland district, the remainder going to various centres in the North and South Islands. An epidemic of checkciipox broke out among the passengers during the voyage. Imt fort uiiti t ely its ravages were not of a very serious nature, am! weiv limited to It) children. There is also a case of measles on board. The eases were isolated as soon as thev were diagnosed about, three weeks ago, and an impel' deck was reserved tor the invalids. The disease has now almost run its course, hut in al! cases in which tract's still remain, orders have been given for the qua ra lit im- of the patients in the shin until all danger of infection is over. It is expected the period will not b,- longer than a tew days. Included in tbe immigrants are 111 dome-tic servants under the charge ol Airs Lisle I’rii-e. All bare had at least, two years' experience, and several six or seven. A good many of them already have their situations booked, inrhtiling two who have conic out to join l.ndv Alice Eergusson’s household. Twenty-one public schoolboys arrived by the vessel to go on the land. There were also eight British sailors Iroui the Chatham and Devouport Barracks. Thev have mice •" join the Veronica, and Laburnum mi the New Zealand si a i ion. Wilb the cxci'iitiou ot a lew stormy (lays in till- T’acil'ic. the voyage was an enjoyable one. AN INFANTS DEATH. .MOTHER BEFORE COURT. TLMARU. September 23. At the .Magistrate’s Court to-day. before Mr E. D. Aloslev. S.M.. Agnes Elizabeth .Munson was charged that on or about July 30th. 1925, at Timaru, she did disooso ot the body ol a dead male child with intent to conceal the fact that she was the mother of the child. Accused was represented by Mr L. E. Finch.

After hearing the evidence, his Worship said there were several circumstances that pointed strongly against Ha- accused. Taken separately they

did not amount to much, hut taken to got her they laid a cumulative died of some importance. Accused was either the victim ol an extraordinary and unfortunate chain of circumstances, or else she was the mother of a child horn within recent times. Under tin- circumstances he did not led called oil to

say that a prima facie case had not troll proved, and the matter should go to a jury to he probed to the bottom. Accused pleaded not guilty, reserved her defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court at Timartt for trial. Hail was allowed. gloaming returns. WELLINGTON. Septemher 23. It. .1. Mason arrived hv the l limaroa to-day with Gloaming, ilazo and Lucinda.' Mason was expressive when questioned about the trip, which was on mills.talk rough one. the Fhniaroa. rolling a good .leal for such a good sea vessel. The horses, however, suffered no ill effect. Gloaming was the first to lie hoisted

out. and he was closely scanned as he stopped out of his box after his nineteenth trip across the Tasman. Although lie has had an easy tune, according to Sydney reports, he still carries plenty of muscle, and a lew rousing sprints would soon make him n force to he reckoned with in judiciously selected races. Haze was the next to appear. Tlie Demosthenes lour-year-obl walked sound I v enough, and from what could hr seen of him he had had plenty of work before tlie trouble appeared which caused his withdrawal in his Australian engagements. It must not he forgotten that he i- in the New Zealand Cup with a good handy weight. H sent to the po-t a showing can he expected from him. Lucinda is a useful Killv. even it a little plain. It was evident from her appearance that she had not been al- - lowed to eat the oats of idleness in - the Commonwealth, and if she lails in 9 the Dominion, it will not he tor lack of comlition. i Alason and the horses left by the 1 ferry steamer for Lyttelton to-night.

\ POISONING ,\t‘FAIR. CHRISTCHURCH. Sept.. 25. Surrounding the death and serious illness „f a well-known farmer of Rangiora and the death of his two pigs, there is a mystery which the police are endeavouring to solve. Early on ’Wednesday evening Ben Ferguson returned home from Addington market and had tea with his daughter. He went out to milk the cow hut was at once seized with an illness of an alarming character. He was assisted back to the house and was attended by doctors, who found him suffering from symp-

I toms of strychnine poisoning. All through the night his life was in danger, but he was brought round and is now on the way to recovery. A neighbour who came in undertook to feed the pigs. Some of the milk from the tea-table was put into the pig bucket, and given to the pigs. Aerv shortly afterwards two pigs "ere in a dying I condition, and both succumbed within a few minutes, having evidently taken [ something poisonous, No explanation I has yet been made as to how anything of a poisonous nature could have got into the food. Some of the milk from the pigs’ trough has been taken for analysis. THEFT OF BENZINE. GISBORNE. Sept. 25. At the Police Court two young men. Charles .Morris and Carl Lyncdon. were charged wit-li stealing eighteen cases of benzine from their employers, the Gisborne .Motor Service Coy. 1 Tarry Cooper, mail contractor, was charged with the theft of eighteen cases and alternatively with receiving them, knowing them to ho dishonestly obtained. They were remanded for a week. The indications are for westerly winds, strong to gale and backing west to south. The weather will probably he squally and changeable. Rain probable, and snow on the high country and the weather will probably become colder. Barometer unsteady, tint rising soon. Seas heavy, tides good.

.MOTOR CAPSIZES. NELSON. Sept. 25. As the result of a service car skidding and overturning at l’isliopdalc late yesterday afternoon. Arthur Emms, driver was admitted to the hospital suffering with severe, though not serious injuries. The other occupants—Air Davies, representative of T. and AY. Young. Wellington; Air Chrissulm. repesentativc of Hope Gibbons, AA'elliugou escaped with a few minor bruises. A BUSH Al AN INJURED . NELSON, Sept. 25. .While bushfalliug in the Collingwood district. H. Ferguson sustained a fractured pelvis through a tree falling on his. Ilis condition is serious, but lie is making satisfactory progress. CONDITION UNCHANGED. NELSON. Sept. 25. There is no change in the condition of Eric Sinclair who was ilaugcously injured in a motor accident in the lluller A’alley on Saturday evening.