DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TKi.ncniM'n —per chess association.} MAN KILLED |’,Y TRAIN. AUCKLAND. .March S. Vn engine driver of a train which left llie city at 1>.35 on Sunday evening when between Penrose and Southdown felt a hump and pulled up. The driver walked hack and found file mangled remains ol a lug man dressed in a dark grey sail. The body was ninveyed to Ot.aliuhn. but iis identity is not known. ALL WELL AT NAURU. AUCKLAND, March li. The steamer Hai l held arrived from Nauru to-day after a prut rai led passage of fourteen days. She was delayed by a heavy head wind and seas, and whi'n she arrived had only ten tens ol (mil in her hunkers. General Turn Griffiths, Ainiuistraliir of Nauru, Was a passenger. He goes on to Wellington ami Sydney. Hi. stales that everything is going on well at Ihe island.

fikf. AT MOW PIAMOFTII. MOW PLYMOUTH. March 8. Fire caused structural damage and almost entirely ruined the stock ol the New Plymouth Salt Goods Coy. at six o’clock this evening. The origin ol the fire is a mystery, as the premises had been dosed only a short while, it nil everything appeared sale when the.' were locked up. Three leads of hose extiugttislied the lire ill about twenty mi miles. The company curies a stock of ladies’ wear, the (liiusiness of whiea makes it highly inflammable. The building, which was saved from fetal destruction by concrete and brick walls, is owned bv Air (I. H. Colson, ami is insured in the .South British (Mitre for (B 12.000. The insurances on the slock are not available. AN ACQUITTAL. OISBORNU., March 8. Ai the Supreme Court to-day. before Judge Alpers. William Archie Middleditch. on a charge of breaking, enterin, r and receiving was acquitted. Afß G. AVITTY’S BROTHER KHJ.ED. INVERCARGILL, March 8. An elderly man. Mr Frederick Witty, meat inspector al the ahal toil s was knocked down by a motor while cycling home this evening. Deceased was a brother of Mr George V. My. laro Mo hi l>o r IW 1? iccartou.