DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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ELDERLY MAN SUFFOCATED. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 21. An inquest was held on Saturday touching tlie death of George Henry James Hillsdon, aged 69, who was found dead in his residence on Friday morning. A verdict was returned that the cause of death was asphyxia, caused by his collar pressing ou his windpipe, following on a fall during an attack of angina peetoritis. MOTOR BOAT SPEED TEST. AUCKLAND. February 22. The Now Zealand speed championship motor boat race was won by a Wanganui representative. Miss Virginia, which completed the eight laps of the course of approximately sixteen miles in twenty-nine minutes forty-one seconds, having a runaway victory over the■ Auckland boat, .Miss X, which had a bent propeller through striking floating timber. FOREARM AMPUTATED. AUCKLAND, February 22. Sidney Dwyer, aged 26, employed as a porter at Howieh Hotel was pursuing a wounded rabbit and he was carrying a gun by the barrel when an undischarged cartridge exploded. The shot penetrated his right arm which was hadlv torn. Dwyer was taken to the hospital where the right forearm was amputated. PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER, TO RETIRE. WELLINGTON, Fch. 20. The Rev. Doctor .1. Gibb, who has been in charge of St. John’s Presbyterian Church. Wellington, since 1003, has intimated ,his desire to retire from the active Ministry and proposes that his resignation he effective from 18th. April. BOY MISSING. TA UMARUNUI, February 22. A sixteen-year-old soil of Kakapi has been missing from home for over a fortnight. The hoy was studying for the civil service examinations and came to Taumarunui the day the results were made known. He was seen ou the railway station that afternoon hut since then has completely disappeared. A hoy answering to his description was seen at To Awanuitu recently. This is the second time lie has disappeared, being found at To Kuiti on a former occasion.

DEATH FROM INJURIES. DUNEDIN, Feh. 22. John Ewit Johnson, a wharf labourer, aged 58 and married, died in the hospital this morning as the result ol severe injuries received in a collision with a Corporation motor bus while ceding. ‘ ZANE GREY MAKES HISTORY. AUCKLAND, Fch. 22. Air Zanc Grey, ou Saturday afternoon. oil' Cape Brett, made history with rod and line by capturing a four hundred pound sword-fish, the first caught in this way on the New Zealand coast.