DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

II? TKLEUHtPH pun I lIKSH ASSOCIATION.I

LOOT ( Al'Cirr IN POINTS. NAPIER. Oet. 10. While removing spoil with a liorsis truck on railway work in Tntira (Tilting to-day. Thom,-i- llwekin got his ieot caught in the points and Die heavily laden trick passed over Idlegs, tract tiring both, i I wekin died in m amhilhiiei- on hi- way to Napier Hospital, \'.ITA I- STATISTICS. AVELLLXCTO.X. Ort. Id. The total birth- registered in urban areas in September amounted to |pd . as against PB7 in Aiigu-t. an increase >1 (ii. Deaths in September were d(i‘J. i. decrease of 17 eollipared with the previous month. Of the total deaths males i-ontrihuted 272 and females 2011. Seventy-twp of the deaths were of rhildren under live years of age. Is-ing 12.81 per relit, ol the whole number. Eifty-oiie of these were under one war.

All! WII.EoUD DEPAKTS EOK I.OXDON. WELI.IXOTOX. Oet. 17. All I. M. Wiilord. accompanied byMrs W ill’nrd. his -on ami the hitler's family left for London by the Port Dunedin. ONLY SIdCHT DAMAGE. W'ELLINCTON. oct. 17. An examinat iuu of Du- copra Irom the Tiirakina shows a wry -mall proportion! was burned and the re-1 only affected hy water, lull this can he Ivcondit ioned. None of Iho meat in the lower hold ol No d hatch was damaged. The -hip has al-o escaped lightly. a few beams only being a little buckled. A YOl "IT I SLKTDES. CHBIST( lICUCH. Oet. 17. dox.-ph Eugene Barl.-iel. aged seventeen years, ol Harman St reel. Addington. was found dead in his home ye terday with a wound in his temple. Tho wound luul he, n .-..u-etl by a shot from ti revolver. THE DISSOLUTION. W’ELU.NCTO.N. Oel. Id. A Cn/.ctte extraordinary. is-tied tonight. announced that the New land Parliament, which stood prorogued nut II 20l !i. (leiolter. lia- teen di--olv .-d hv a proclamation i-sin-d by lII.' (!overnor-( .'eneral. and a new Parliament i- -uiiinioned lo meet en the Plb. November next. COLERIDGE. DISASTEI! ( lIBISTT 111 l!( 11. Oet. ID. Mr .1. Bel.an say- one body i- in -iglit in the Coleridge tunnel, hut' it i' not known whose it i-. It. might Ik* Mael-'aiTane’s body. Il will not he recovered till Saturday night at tin- earliest or Sunday morning. NELSON ELOoDS. NELSON, (let Id. heavy rain during Die lu-t day or two caused lieiivv lain ill all the rivers. .Minor slims are reported in several place-. A lew low-lying portions of the town are submerged.