DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[l;y TELECRAVU-—PER PKESS ASSOCIATION'.] FATALITIES. AUCKLAND, April it. Mrs. C. J. Hint's, aged 52, of Uneliunga, was knocked down by a motor car at a. street corner on lhursday evening and received severe injuries to her head and left arm. She died in the hospital shortly after admittance. The death occurred at the hospital on Thursday of Joseph .Morrison Carsic who was chief engineer of the Chelsea Sugar .Refinery, as the result of an injury on March Kith when he was thrown from a gig through the horse tailing, when he sustained deep cuts on the left elbow and knee. A FATAL FALL. AUCKLAND. April -I. A fatal accident occurred tit the Wnitematn Hotel this morning, when a maid, named Mary Shannon. aged about 14 years, fell from a window ul the hotel. She was dead when picked tip. The deceased was married, with a grown-up family, and was engaged as housemaid al the hotel. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. TE KI TH, April I. A child, one year old. sou of .Mr 11. O. Amundson .bushinaii, of Kopaki, was badly sealdetl on Thursday evening, as the result of which she died on Friday ('vetting. Three children were sitting in front of a log lire, on which a kettle had been plated. The log rolled, and the contents ol the boiling kettle were precipitated over the child, badly scalding Iter from the waist downward. Owing to the stale of the roads, the parents had to wait at Kepalci with the injured child from 7 to If) p.m.. to catch a train, no motor ear being able to get through to To Kniti. At the inquest, a vot'dir-t that death was caused by shock through scalds was returned. A .MOTOR FATALITY. LEVIN, April 4. A motor fatality occurred hot ween ten and eleven o'clock last night, m-a; Waikanae. where road improvement works are in progress. A party oi H ellingtonians was being driven friili. I‘aekaknriki to Otaki. seeking accommodation which was not obtainable at the former place. Tim- car wont over tile end of the road, which i-- being widened, and capsized. One passenger, a young woman, Miss Nila f'undy. o! IStirke St red. Wellington, was killed. Others sustained minor injuries. INFANT CURL DROWNED. TIM Al’U, April ■!. ; Gladys Stone, aged two years, the daughter of Mr William Stone, a what; labourer, vas found drowned Hie morning in a part ly-lilled drum ot water in the yard attached to her home. SI lEI’l lERD DROWNED. oamahu. April i. While crossing the Dobson River, some s"ven t v miles beyond Kttrow. on Wednesday lasi. a. shepherd named Charles William Morgan, aged -J!). unwashed oil his horse amt drowned. I lie river was slightly in Hood at tilt* lime. It is belie veil that lie received a kick from the horse, which rendered him incapable of saving him-tll. Deceased, who was- a. splendid horseman and an excellent swimmer, saved a man from drowning two tin.ntlis ago. A HOY INJURED. NELSON, April 4. Oliver Chappell, of I’ttpongn. aged live years, got his fool caught in the spokes while riding behind his hmllier on a motor cycle, lie was taken In the hospital, where hall his loot had to he amputated. .MOTOR ID'S ACCIDENT. fM'NEDIN. April I. A lorn owned by Robl. Edie i Dunedin) nnd. with a niishan on the mail to Wuipori to-day. When about a mile from Beivviik. a tyre luirsl. and the bus was thrown off the road, and it collided with a telegraph post. Edie - received three broken ribs and internal injuries, and two passengers. Mrs Jane Heron, of Oamarit. and Miss Edith Day. of Dunedin, received l l'actur"l j arms and a frail tired wrist respective-; |v. All three were admitted to ■ lie bespit al. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. INVERCARLILL. April 4. I A single muu. named Arthur ( alder, a wharf labourer at Itlutf. cut le. | throat with a. razor. The police lound ; him shortly idler piiil-ilay. and called | in Dr Torrance, who attended to him. ■. and ordered his removal to the South.- j land hospital. Invercargill. LAUNCH EXPLOSION. : AUCKLAND. April L 1 'Thomas Ross's launch. Secret, wa> ! totally destroyed by lire on Lake j T.-mpo Oil Thursday evening, about 5.31) j in llit 1 alternooii. I In* launch was re-;

tuniimi from Mr Zane tlrey s f:im]>. only tin 1 owner i.-i-ion board. When oil' Mnnoitera Point in' was startled by ail explosion in the engine-room, which til, mv oft' tin- bn toll, over the room. Immediately tlit* bout was in flames, despite tlie ell'orts of Hoss loextinguish the fire. I’oss bad In swim nearly ball a mile In sfinre. and I ben w alk over five mile.'., round tbn edge of (lie lake, to a camp, where be obtained assistance to return borne. Hv then lie was pretty well exhausted, having bis feet severely cut bedrocks. The launch was insured for SI-MI. 'iroESToncx oor.uDK. MTKI.AMd, April I. Two horses were killed and their riders badly shaken as a. result of a i.eeti-

linr accident which occurred at Ensoul Show Grounds (luring the course of the :si-d Mounted Itille.s spoils tourney. 'Hie accident, vim’li occurred in n vide open paddock, some distance from the ground where the sports were I ein.tr , hold, was caused by the collision of two . troopers, who were exercising tlitir mounts prior to tiie commencement of one of the events. The horses were galloping in opposite directions when they met head cn. Both riders. Troopers I!. Fisher (Patilinahoel and (). Nicliods (I apatocio ). vere thrown to the ground, and it aas 1 at first thought that they had heolt seriously injured.t They were taken oil stretchers to the doctor’s tent, and vere later conveyed to the hospital for examination. The men vere badly shaken, hut escaped serious injury. Of the two horses, one was killed outright. and the other was destroyed a lev minutes after the accident. Din I Til ERIA OUTER EAlv. DUNEDIN, April o. An outbreak of a mild form of diphtheria in the mining township of Kait align til. originating in school ehildien. claimed 23 eases. These are being accommodated in tents. KARU ENQUIRY ADJOURNED. AUCKLAND. April 3. The enquiry into the circumstances touching the wreck of the steamer Kara, was adjourned till April 28th. In the meantime, the captain’s certificate is not affected. A EIRE. WELLINGTON. April 5. A lire in Marama Crescent destroyed a. nine roomed house owned and occupied by -Mrs Orix and damaged two other buildings. YACHT LEAVES. WELLINGTON. April 5. Linton's auxiliary yacht Psyche left for Sydney under Captain Townsend of Auckland and a crew of three dozen. Applications to join her were relused. HOLIDAY WEATHER. WELLINGTON. April 5. The weather for the holidays was bright, but chilly and continues to-day. MASONIC PROCESSION AUCKLAND. April 3. Nearly 300 members from lodges all over the country took part in a procession on Sunday afternoon in connection with the grand lodge session. The business so far is routine,

CITY IMPROVEMENTS. WELLINGTON, April 5. The old Opera House in Manners St. later known as the Tivoli, is to he replaced hy a new theatre to hold 1500. which will be used lor vaudeville and pictures. The work of demolition begins next week. The owners are the 'Williamson Films Ltd, new company. WHITE NEW ZEALAND. CHRISTCHURCH, Ap 5. That a white New calami should be the aim of New Zealanders and that Asiatics should he prohibited from entering the Dominion for the next ten rears, were, the sentiments embodied in a remit approved hy the Canterbury Fruitgrowers’ Association ot its annual meeting. A FATALITY. AUCKLAND, April 5. Mis Maude Shannon, who fell from a bedroom window ot the third storey of the Waitematn hotel on Sunday morning, was killed. A few minutes earlier she was talking to a hoarder and told him she would bring a cup of tea to his room. It is supposed she overbalanced while trying to open a jammed window. she was a married woman with a family, and was aged II years. O'SHEA AND HENDERSON. AUCKLASD. April L At the final sports meeting at Hlaiulford Park Stadium, a special match race was held between I’hil O'Shea and Jack Henderson, of Christchurch. The distances were one, two. and three hips respectively. Henderson sprang a surprise on the crowd by winning the iirst two races brilliantly, lie annexed the one-lap , cutest bv a narrow margin, am! won the ft:, inns by a- wheel. < ‘a won a sera tea race of eight laps.