DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGKArn —rEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.

LICENSE IN OH IN EM URL THAMES, March 3.

Twenty-two candidates have been nominated for the five seats on the Ohinemttri Licensing Committee. The candidates include the .Mayors of Paeroa and Wailii and representatives of the brewers and the prohibitionists. Extraordinary interest is being shown in the election, and there is strong rivalry among country villages for the right to erect licensed houses following on many years of no-license. RELIEF FOR KARTS CREW. DUNEDIN, March o. The Shipwreck Rebel Society has authorised the disbursement of 382 to the survivors el the Kuril wreck, that being the sum required. an UNUSUAL CASE. liability repudiated. WELLINGTON March it. Liability ua repudiated in an onusual maimer whon a claim was made in. the Magis! rale's Court by lvirkeahlie and Stain?- Lid. against Randolph Percy Sims of the Railway Department for £.31 13- Id for goods alleged to have been supplied to Betiy Sim.s, the defendant's wile. It was stated in evidence that when approached, the defendant said he would nnt pay; also that Mrs Sims was not his wile, hut his hon-e-koe) or.

Mrs Sims evidenced that she had been married lo delcndunt for nine years. They were first married in Calilornin and then when she heard his second wife was suing for alimony she wished another o-remoiiy and this was performed in .Mexico. She had been married before she met Sims, who, she said, had hewn treating her badly since they came to New Zealand. She often had very little to live on, while Sims had an income of 330 per w<y?k and "as allowing his second wife twontv

rouiuks per month still. The defending counsel claimed ; verdict for a non-suit as credit wa given by Kirkcaldics jo Mrs Sims. 'Decision was reserved.

TROUBLE OVER A DRESS. 'WELLINGTON, March 3

In the Magistrate’s Court. Beatrice Davison, an English tourist, claimed £1(1 from the Victorian Laundry, being the price of a georgette frock purchased in Paris and now alleged to have been spoilt while in the laun-

dry’s custody. Plaintiff in her evidence said tlial she had sent the garment to the depot to have some spots removed. When returned the frock still bore the marks. She sent it hack and had not seen it again for ton days. Then it was in such a condition that plaintiff refused to wear the garment, which had other marks on it, and. apparently, it had lifi'm worn liv someone.

Replying to counsel for the defence, plaintiff denied rushing into the depot. abusing people thee? and calling the manager a fool, with the result Hint he ordered her out of the place. She admitted she “called some of them fools and he may have been included." Plaintiff added that the girl in (he shop was rude to Per and did not seem to have Hindi ,-en-c.

[n the course of exchanges between counsel, jhe dciiance hinted that plaintiffs statements regarding tlie laundry office girl might lead to a -uit. for libel. The case was adjourned till Monday next. MOTOR IMPORT REGULATION'S. WELLINGTON. .March A. Tlu? “Gazette" notifies the importation of certain motor vehicle.- into New Zealand i,- p"<ihihiU>d, except by the consent, o! the Minister. The weight of n tractor is limit.'.'d to ten tons ami a six-wheeled turr? wili he admitted if designed to carry not more than nine tons exclusive of its own weight or fifteen, tons including its own weight. Similarly, no twowheelod trailer to carry move than four ton- or a four-wheeled trailer to carry more than six tons will he admitted. All chassis, axles and other parts suitable for the eonstriicfion of anv special vehicles are included in the prohibition. .MEDTCAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL. WILL LTNG TON, March 5. A plea that medical research in New Zealand should he placed on a basis of financial stability was made by Sir Lindo Ferguson and lias been endorsed b.v the Minister of Health (the lion J. A. Voting) and the Board of Health. The Minister has stipulated, however, that New Zealand rescan h should Ik? along (lie lines special to this country, stub as research into goitre and hydatids, rather than along lines overlapping what is already being done in older countries. CHARGE OF THEFT. GISBORNE. .March it. Caleb Charles t'astcll, Hi, a former secretary of the I lydro-Eleotrie Engineering Co., pleadel guilty to twelve charges of theft of money from the company, aggregating £7!)9. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

AUCKLAND FIRE. AUCKLAND, March 5. A lire on the premises in Albert occupied by the Reliance Battery Manufacturing Co. last night destroyed a large quantity of stock, including over one hundred privately owned batteries. The fire also caused . oiisidortihlc damage to the wooden gallery, ceiling and rafters. The flumes, which rose through the roof, were vis hie at a great distance oil account of ti": inflammable character ol the c.iuf? its. The stock was insured in the A'ictoria Insurance Company. SUNDAY TRAMS. AUCKLAND. March 5. The City Council, by thirt v'u to s>x, rejected a motion that the tinms cease running from eleven to noun on Sundays in cuusideralion of the f copm attending church. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT. NAPIER. March 5. After a retirement of three minutes the jury in the c-laim for CoGoO by Airs Eleena Agues Christie Dyett, wj’dow, of Afanaia against AA'alter Alauson. lor alleged indecent assault and communication of a certain disorder, returned a verdict for tho defendant with costs against the plaintiff.