DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BUSINESS -WEN MEET. AUCKLAND, April 10. A meeting of business men attended by R. AV. Dalton, senior trade Commissioner in Australia, resolved to revive tho Auckland branch of the Now Zealand and British manufacturers and agents, and elected a provisional council. BAND CONTEST. WELLINGTON, April S. The next North Island band eoi test has liecn allotted to Wellington, and will bo lield in February next. Tlie committee lias £IOOO in trust, surplus from the contest held hero in l£F!-. Thu music has been ordered from Kngland. DEATH FROM GAS. DUNEDIN, April Aubrey Wright, aged 39, a married man with a family of six, of Wright's Commercial Agency, was found dead .in his office this morning with the gas turned on. CAPTAIN HOBSON'S GRAVE. AUCKLAND, April '■>. The grave of Captain William Hobson,. K.X., First Governor of New Zealand, who died oil September lOt 1 1 . 1843, and wa> buried in Syniouds street Cemetery, is to he marked by a suitable memorial. The grave is marked by an ordinary headstone. The Department of Internal Allairs has decided to call tenders for the erection on. the grave of an obelisk monument, which will I oral a much more litting memorial to a man who holds ail honoured p. siisou in tho history of New Zealand. A MAGISTRATE'S VIEWS. AUCKLAND, April £>. "Yesterday and also the day before lines of £lO were imposed on intoxicated motorists, but I think that, lines are not effective," observed Mr F. K. Hunt, S.AL, at the Police Court this morning, when Andrew Francis Dnnoglu: ■. (H o came felt,re him charged v.itu being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a moiur-ear last night. Mr Allan Moody appeared lor aeei.-ed. who pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Eduards said that Doimgliue, al about 0 p.in., while chiving liis ear, had to swerve in i.dor to miss colliding with a taxi. Later oil

he, nearly collided with a street convenience. and drove on to Hie Periling of ihe footpath. Constable. Al'Keliy.ie bad to call on accused three times beiorei lie .-lopped his ear. An emiy whisky' bottle was afterwards lutiml in the car. Mr Moody said l hat while a doctor certified that Uonoghue was not drunk i here was no doubt that he had some liquor. However, it was not alleged that Douoghue had travelled at anything hut slow speed. Thai was a pleasing tealure. Aceused loot it; make a sharp turn and probably his judgment- was nut quite correct. Il was generally known that, ears titled with balloon tyres were difficult. '« -Per sometimes. Counsel said that 'he ease was not as had as two othercasex which ailin' before the magistrate this week, and lie suggested that a tine should be inflicted rather than sand Buiiogluio to gaol. In addition to inllieling a penally of t'lo and costs. Mr Hun! suspended Donoghue's driver's license ior six months. GIRL GUIDES. AUCKLAND. April >.!- A rally of the Girl 'bii.les in ihe Auckland Province was n-’ld. M.-lmcny at tho Domain, over SIX) gir-s la nig present. The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergnssou. look the saline al the inarch past. I merest ing denoiitralious were gi\i n by the Guide,. .1 FWFI.LKR ROBBED. GISBORNE. Vnril 11. Early ibis morning. a window in I lie shop oi Mr \\ . \ . Plesse. jeweller, in Olad-ioia- J’oad. was broken with II stone, and ni< kel walelies and gold and grecnsiom orooebes to tbo t aim--I,f i Lilly pounds were stolen. The ciinstablo on the beat reported that the window was intact at bve a.in., and the unit ter wa- t--- airted i-> Ibe |„,li. e hone ami a bali h ler. A ( A RTER.’S .MISTAKE. WEI, LI NOTON April 11. in Albert Clark, a eari.-r, with seven ebildren, residing at I’eloitf. was drowned in tine llutt. River on Saturdav afternoon. Ho was engaged in carting sbingle, Iron! the river bed. a three-horse team being employed. While emerging from the river. he made a mistake as to the point for a crossing. The man. cart and horses were plunged into a lilteen-leet water hole. The tide was in at the time, w Inch increased the depth of the water at the hole. Clark and the* lii reft hor-i-s were drowned.