DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nr TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATIONJ “SURPRISE” A MAGNIFICENT YACHT. WELLINGTON, March 29, Tho steam yacht Surprise, which arrived on Saturday, was built for an American millionaire and atterwards belonged to King Leopold, of Belgium. The furniture and fittings are most elaborate and are said to he worth £200,000. T4ie.ro alro valuable paintings on board and the table centerpiece at one time was the property of Napoleon and is valued at £IOOO. Each stateroom lias a hath attached and is more like the bedroom ol a mansion than a ship’s cabin. 4'hc vessel is 27 years old and can steam 14 knots. Tho owner Mr G. 11. Williams, of South Wales, intends to stay some time in New Zealand fishing and deer-stalking.

WELLINGTON garace fire. EIGHT CARS DESTROYED. WELLINGTON, March 29. A fire in the Dominioji (Motor Buildings, Courtenay Place, destroyed eight cars and damaged twenty others. Tile Brigade confined the fire to tho garage portion and the showroom was untouched. There were fifty-five cars, nearly all new. in the garage and besides those actually destroyed or partly burned, many others suffered from water and smoke. ' The Brigade did very good work to coniine the damage to such small limits. The cause of the fire is unknown. QUINN AT SALMON’ INLAND. WELLINGTON, March 29. A local angler caught a two-foot quiniiat salmon in a stream running into the 1 ilitt River nearly 2d miles from the mouth. So far as is known it is the first caught in this island. Its weight is about eight pounds.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOUR. AUCKLAND, March 29

The British Universities debating team arrived by the Aorangi last night, and is as follows Messrs Paul Reed (King’s College, London), R. Nunn .May (Birmingham University). 11. K. Molsou (Now College. Oxford), and T. P. McDonald (Edinburgh University). The last named is not the son of the ex-Prime Minister here last year. They leave for Dunedin on Monday evening. The British University team, which was organised by tho National Union of Students of England, Scotland and Wales, sailed from England on .January 2nd. for Canada, have arrived in Auckland. They visited most of the large towns in Canada and all lire principal universities. They were engaged in debates on about twenty occasions, being adjudged the winners of all, but three. Asked if they hoped their visit to the Dominion would he returned, Mr Reid said that so far as •New Zealand was concerned, it was a question of the British .students making up leeway. The Rhodes scholars had long I ren Ihe ambassadors of Now Zealand and they were well liked and popular among the English students. The delegation will leave for Sydney on April 23rd. After touring Australia they will return to England. Reed is a. journalist, .May a. scientist, while Molsou and McDonald are pursuing law. .MAORIS ASSAULT SADDLER. THREE ARRESTED. GISBORNE. March 29. About eleven o'clock on Saturday night Albert Edward Orange, a saddler, of Ruaforia, was called from his bed by a Maori who said he had a saddle to repair. The .Maori gave Orange tho saddle and then said lie had sonic more saddles around the corner. The Maori went away and then came back with two masked .Maoris, one ol whom was armed with a. double barrelled gun. The three natives rushed at Grange and violently assaulted him. When Orange recovered lie found that lie had been robbed and reported tho occurrence to the police. Yesterday afternoon Inspector Kccles and two constables went to the I\ lienunkura Pa and there arrested three natives on a charge ol assaulting Orange. The shotgun and saddle are now in the bauds of the police. Orange was badly knocked about.

OLD MAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND. March 29. James Morlcy White, aged seventy, a resident of Avondale, was Imind drowned in tile Oakley Crook, A willdale, on Sunday. lie was missing from his home since Saturday iiioi uiiig and was found by a search party. It is supposed he was sitting on the edge of the creek and fell in. RECOVERING. CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. Lieutenant Turner who was injured in thg aeroplane smash, is now oft the soriouslv ill list. AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. AUCKLAND. March 29. At the Supreme Court prisoners sentenced were:— Robert Stephenson Wake, for indecent assault on a girl at Kawakawa, two years hard labour. Joim Roderick Skipper, false pretences at Gisborne, probation for two years. William Bergerson, carnal knowledge. at Taumarunui, to come up for sentence if called upon. The judge said the girl was partly responsible. The couple had since been married.