DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

i DY TELEOBAI’B —rUKSB ABBN , COPYUICinT LABOUR CANDIDATES. INVERCARGILL. Sept. 28. Mr A. Ashworth, fruitgrower, of Alexandria, lias been selected as the Labour candidate for the Wakatipu seat-. Mr .1. M. McKenzie, journalist, of Invercargill, has keen selected as the Labour candidate tor the Wallace seat. NELSON ROAD DAMAGE. NELSON. Sept. 28. A serious .subsidence occurred oil (Saturday in tlie old wooden portion of the Motuekn-Riwaka bridge, which is now closed to all Ira Hie. cutting off the Riuaka. Takaka. ami (Tillingwood districts from nad communication. Ihe river lias been half ill llood for several weeks, with the inciting snow and rain. PEPPERED HIS WIFE. NELSON. Sept. 28. ( ha- K. Thompson, a seaman, was lined ten pounds tor throwing pepper at his wife, from whom he is separated. Counsel -.aid the accused was drunk at tlie time and did not realise what, lie was doing. THEFTS OF CLOTH. CM RUSTY'II i" R( li, Sept. 28. Fourteen days hard labour was thu .sentense impu.-.ed by Mr H. Y. Will dow son. S.M., this morning in a ease m which a shop assistant admitted that he had stolen crepe de chine, tugi silk, and serge. Linnet Elcgeltaub, aged 7;9, pleaded guilty to charges that, oil Set. 2ii Ll l . tie stole a pie. e of ciepe de chine and a piece of fugi silk, valued at Ins. the properly of T. Armstrong and Co., Ltd., and that, on September 21th. he stole from the same Brill a piece ot serge valued at 97s (id. t hii-t Detective Gibson said that, on Saturday, the accused left the shop with the i-repo tie chine and fugi silk in his pocket. lie wa- accosted b\ a ili-leet i\ i\ and admitted that he had

■'toli'ti the goods A piece ol serge was toned at hi- lodgings. Nothing was known against the arcitsnd. who name lo NT n Zealand from Australia about 18 monlli.-.' ago.

v X AC( K I.A XI) INCIDENT. Jit UK LAND. September 28. li'.e crew ot ihe Northern Shipping * o.'s -Icaiiicr Mataugi refused to take the ship in sen In-night until a passenger a seamen going to join the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen at Tauranga had h'-eu pul mi shore, 'this seamen was one ol a parly of seven engaged at li—. than H r New Zealand I'ouslai rales to replace di-seri ers I'rout the 11 en rik flisen. He was the only one el those members of the union engaged to go. The unionists had struck to iinlu. c the laptain to pav coastal ra t t-s. Auer a e.ailcri'uee, the man was put on -Imre and tin- ship -ailed. NURSE II! N'TKR DIES. NELSON. Sept. 29. XT II -e tinnier, wlm sustained grim injuries Ml the motor ai-i-idi-nt on I lie Wttimea Road on Saturday evening tlieil early tin- morning. POLITICAL. CAMHRIDGK. Septemlmr 29. l ied ; . S. Law-Oil of Repepe. Raghill Comity, has been -elected as t hiofficial Country Ratty candidate for Waikato seat. Tin-re arc now throe (•iitididatcs hi thi Held, the others living I-'. Lye (National, sittine mend el ), and Stew ai l. Reid i It-.-lorm i. A EIRE. RA It I ATE A. Sept,-tidier 29. Wilson Eanham ( ompany’- lellmoiig-i-i v and conti-nls at \\ angamut It were totally destroyed by tire early thi-. morning. It i- undei'-l'ioil to In' insured in the New Zealand oilin'. Lot tinamount i> let a-e.-rt at oa Me. ( MARGE OE MA NS LAC 11T El! A EC K LAND, Kepti-mher 29. At Mauiigal uroto. a young Maori, 'i'etiga Taka, was eommitteil for trial on a charge of manslaughter. *>v haling failed 1" [.t’lii'Ul'e un-ilual allent'.ou for his child which died on Attgu-t 21-1. Accused and his family are followers of Ratatla and relied oil I In- i-Hieai y of prayer. Tie-. |-«-l tt-i-d t«, ea II in a onahliril mi-die::! man. D.ietor Marshal! who ronduelrd the po-t mortem, gave

,-viii I- that dealli was due to bronchial pneumonia. Medical attention at the proper lime Would probably have prevented death ÜBITCAKY. GISBORNE. September 29. Obituary. John Maynard, aged So. a rc.-ij'-u! "1 (i i - hot tie lor mer sixty years. lie participated in the stirring events of the To Kooti ri-ings. EARMERS CO-OIL COY. it lIRISTCIIERCH. Sept. 29. At a meeting of tirst preference and A. prefi-rein e shun-holders of tin-l-'armer-' Co.op. thi- morning, extrnordiuarv 'i-soltiiion- passed earlier in tin- month roliuiiui'hing i licit rights to ilividcmls ai-ertn-d up to January 1-t. lirnt were continued. APPEAL COURT. WELLINGTON. September 29. The Appeal Court npi-m-d thi- morning, Justices Stout. Sim. Reed. Adams and Ostler being on the bench. Rrn-vi-iounl lixl-.ii-iv- were made and the In-si ,ase i, sit (luuti lot Thursday. Seven eases are listed tbits far.