DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv TELEOR.Vrit PER PUESB ASSOCIATION.] PAINT POT AFIRE. DUNEDIN, March 20. Charles Bain, aged fourteen, an apprentice at Ford Motors, Ltd., was sent to hospital with burns on the head. He and others were playing with matches, hammering them on an anvil, when a spark ignited pnint in a pot. A hov threw the pot towards the door, and it hit Bain, igniting his hair. The flames were extinguished with a fellow worker’s coat. A DIFFICULT POSITION. DUNEDIN, March 20. The plight of Alphonsus Baillcur is sad. ITe joined the the Dutch steamer Schotiwen at Oliristobol and being the only Frenchman amongst the Dutch crew, and suffering also from a contagious disease, lie is said to have had a had time.

“It is n difficult- position,” said counsel, when Baillcur, who is in the hospital, was charged, that being an alien, lie had landed in New Zealand without a permit. The Magistrate adjourned the case till Monday, when the vessel will sail. He remarked that it was a matter for arrangement between the parties concerned.

KILED BY TRAIN. DUNEDIN, March 22

Run over on the Rattray Street railway crossing this morning by (lie 10.25 train to Mosgiel, a man named Robert Wilson bad both his legs cut off about Hie knee and also received head in-

juries. ITe died in ihc hospital at 11.40. lie was fift.v-six years of ago atul a married man. From tlvo statements of witnesses, it seems that the train was moving out at a steady pace. The bells rang out tlieir warning, and the crossing keeper was carrying out his duty of signalling the traffic, but the man did not heed the boll. A witness states that ho saw him crouched on tho line in front of tho oncoming engine, and other men saw him just as be fell forward beneath. Tho ambulance was summoned promptly and tho man was removed to tho hospital. Blood transfusion was carried out without avail. A Itottlc of nerve tonic was found among Wilson’s belongings. Ho bad not long been discharged from the hospital. An inquest was opened at ihc hospital this afternoon. NELSON SENS-VTI OX. NELSON. -March 22. Myra McGill, aged five years, who strayed from Taluuia Sands on WedneMla afternoon, while attending a picnic with the Convent children, was found about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon just inside tho golf grounds at Talninanui. The child had been three days and three nights out in the open, yet. except for weariness, due to lack of food and water she was little I lie worse for her unenviable experience. Helen and Thirra Dixon, twin daughters of ,1. B. Dixon, of Tuliuna- | uni. were respon.-.ihlr for finding Ihe missing child. They were passing through. Ihe goit grounds, when one saw the child among some gorso down a hank near a bridge just inside Ihc golf ground. It is somewhat remarkable that the child was not discovered before. as search parties had been mil since Wednesday afternoon. It. is thought Dial ihc child must have kept close to her •bed” during the whole period she was missing. The spot, though well hidden. was quite close lo a road leading up io the golf house. Dozens of people must have passed to and fro during the three days. GUARD'S FATAL ACCIDENT. HAWERA, March 22. A verdict of accidental death, with no blame a Latched to anyone, was r«t timed at the inquest on Daniel Nolan, the guard employed by the PublicWorks Department on the Toroti-Opu-nake railway, who was killed on March 15th by being crushed between the buffers of two trucks. ANGLEM POINT LIGHT OUT. INVERCARGILL, March 22. The master of the ketch Water Lily (Onplain Roderique) reports Hud the light, which is characterised in tho New Zealand Nautical Almanac as •• Unwatched,” is visible from 137 degrees through south to 339 degrees. It is obscured elsewhere.

ENOPIEIES INTO AIR SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. Two inquiries will he held concerning the aeroplane smash at Papanui, a Coroner’s inquest, and a military court of inquiry. Hon Rolleston stated yesterday that everything connected with the cause of the accident, condition of the machine and engine, and means of preventing such accidents in the future would ho inquired into by the Coroner whose enquiry would bo open to the public. The military inquiry would be purely of a. departmental and technical nature and would not he open to the public.

CYCLING TRACK FALL. CHRISTCHURCH, March 22. Racing round the last lap of a cycling race at the English Park yesterday evening S. A. Miller fell heavily, while strapped to his machine. His arms was broken and his head lacerated, lie was hospitalled.