DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1925, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PBESB ABSN , OOI’THIUIiJ Y’ll EAT EMBARGO NEXT MONTH. WELLINGTON, December 23. The Minister ol Agriculture to-dav mode the following aiinouncemeul: — There will shortly be gazetted an Order-iu-Counoil prohibiting, on and alter January RTb. 11)23. the importation of wheat, wbeat-llour. wheat-meal, and ground wheal. This action is tak(Mi «ms tht* result <»! the (Jnverinuciit’s decision to adopt the control of wheat supplies during the coming year. ASH BURTON. December 23. Ilou. Mr Nosworlliy informed the President of the Mid-Canterbury Farmers' Union that the Cabinet had decided that there should be no wheat (•outnil after the l!l2o-2(i season. holiday traffic.

BIG PROBLEAI LOB RAILWAY CHRISTCHURCH. Dee. 24. The holiday rush of visitors to file Dunedin Exhibition has given the rail'way authorities the biggest, problem they have had to handle for years. Tt. i s estimated that three thousand went south to Dunedin to-day. The ferry boats from Wellington yesterday brought 1550 people. IIOMK-AIADE BOMB. IN LAWYER'S OFFICE. AUCKLAND, Dec. 23. A sensational discovery was made by an employee of the legal firm of lieslcetli, Richmond and Clayton, in the Batik of Australasia building, at the corner ot Queen St., and Wyudham Street this morning, when he went to work at nine o'clock. In the upstairs corridor he saw something alight in u small basket containing uluit looked like a parcel. On lifting the burning 1 artel out, he put it on the leadcovered stairs, ami tried to put the (lames out with his handkerchief. Then he went into a neighbouring lavatory to get some water, and in the interval he heard an explosion outside, like a shot out of a gun. When the clerk looked backward to the corridor, there was a smell of gunpowder and a lot of grey smoke about where the burning basket had stood. There was a fairsi/.oil tin, with a piece of fuse attached to it. Scattered about were the contents of the basket, which included tin-nails, holl.s. screws and some road metal Tt was rather a quaintisli sort of bomb. but bomb it was, and had anyone Iteen in the vicinity, he would have got a nasty smack from some of the living missiles. No one has the slightest idea as to how the homemade bomb got into the corridor, or, (that it was intended to do.

STREET COLLISION'. AUCKLAND. IVc. 21. Suffering from injuries received in a collision l>etween a steam tram and a motor van at Takapttna this afternoon. Herbert- and Leslie Cabler. aged alsvitt 8 years, were admitted to the hospital suffering from injuries to head and body. It is stilted the motor van on which the two boys were sitting, alongside the driver, was moving across the rails into the main road, when it was struck full on by the engine of a train, and was capsized The driver was uninjured.