DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TELF.GRArn rER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHINESE GAMBLING FINE. ■WEFJJXGTOX, April 14. A Chinese .store-keeper. Xy Yok, alias "Wong Wall, was fined £-10 for keeping a. common gaming house. ’Tlie police stated that accused conducted pakapoo. hut defended himself by saying lie did not allow Europeans to play, chOSSINf! SMASH. AUCKLAND, April 1!. A train leaving Avondale for Auckland at 5.20 this evening struck a smrtll motor lorry containing Joseph Maverly, builder of Titiraugi. and his son Arnold Maverlv. aged 22. at .the Woodward road cro-sing. Mount Albert. The laxly of the truck was smashed, and Arnold Maverly had his right leg broken. His father had his face cut hv flying glass.

BURGLARY AT CHRISTCHURCH CHRISTCHURCH. April ]I.

Some time last night, the premises of Briscoe and Co.. Ltd., in Worcester Street, were broken into, ant! goods valued at approximately £25 were stolen. Among the articles taken were a double-barrelled gun. a revolver, some brass ornaments, some lloulton unro. and a. box of cartridges. 'lbis Is the third time the promises ol Briscoe and Co. have been broken into.

FUEL ENGINEER FOR RAILWAYS. WELLINGTON. April 15. In accordance with the recommendation of the Coal Board Enquiry, a fuel engineer "ill he appointed to control the supply of coal to Ihe railways. Experience, in locomotive running and a certain amount- of laboratory knowledge will he required. Besides looking after supplies this official "ill have to instruct the locomotive men in the inosf economical and satisfactory method of firing. The salnrv will he £Gf!5.

PREFERENCE ON GERMAN GOODS.

WELLINGTON. April 15. A letter from the Hirniinglm" Chamber of Commerce was received by tho local chamber, alleging that goods of German manufacture were being shipped to New Zealand as British and obtaining preferential rates. Electric tubes and fittings were specifically mentioned. The Secretary stated tha-l the Customs .Department would require details and names before they could take action. Members were of the opinion licit it was la serious matter as it impuimaking a false declaration by a British firm. It was decided to refer the into the l.oeal Association ol British Manufact itrers. ODDFKLLOWSIHr*. AUCKLAND, April 15. Manchester Unity Conference discussed a. Westland remit on the hazardous occupations scale. 'The following was carried as an amendment : Districts composed of mixed populations whose previous experience shows the trade ol' (idling to heexlra hazardous, shall he valued separately by Hie actuary. Should such show sickness in excess of the actuary's table for urinary vocations, the cost of such excess sickness he borne equally by all districts of the New Zealand brunch.

BIG OAT RETURN. OA.WARD. April 15. The yields of grain this season have sen remark-able. What, is believed to :■ a record is a return of nearly 151 nxhcls per acre of Carton oats lor a urea of eleven acres in Ngapara istriet.

AN APP< HNTMENT. GISBORNE. April 15. F. W. Biacb. of Gisborne, has been appointed General .Manager of the Gisborne Sheep-Farmers’ Company, in succession to AN. F. Coder"all. INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM. CHRISTCHURCH, April 15. The New Zealand Hockey Association lias been intormed that the Indian Army hockey team will now comprise seventeen and not fifteen players, including a native officer. A £75 FINE. AUCKLAND. April 15. “The time is inpidly approaching when these men who drive motor cars while intoxicated will lmve to be sent to prison instead ol being fined, said Mr Hunt S.AL, when lie fined Ernest Aland, a jeweller. 675 for being drunk while in charge of a ear. which collided with a lighted stationary ear in Cart-ton-Gore Road at 1.30 this morning, causing the latter to be thrown right across" the street and hit another car. EXPRESS DELAYED. AUCKLAND, April 15. The daylight limited which was due to reach Auckland at 11.1 last evening did not arrive till ten minutes before mid-night. The delay was due to the breakdown of a mixed train leaving To Kuiti for Frank ton Junction at 5.25. The breakdown occurred between le Awumutu and Oliapo. The train bad to be taken back to To Awumutu m two sections. The express was delayed at To Awnmutu for an hour and ten minutes.

MAORI AYOAIAN CONFESSES. WELLINGTON, April 15. Charlotte -Mather, the -Maori wife of a white man. pleaded guilty at the Upper Hutt, to wilfully burning a bouse, valued at 6285, the property of tho Crown Lands Department. ( The evidence showed that the house was unoccupied at the time and the } culprit would never have been found if i she bad not voluntarily confessed, because she believed someone was under suspicion. The accused said that a man who had been annoying her was going to take the house and she burnt it to prevent bis coining. The woman was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail of 650 being allowed. MISSING SCHOOL TEACHER. PALAIERSTON NORTH, April 15. A!,- A. Al. Davidson, the missing school teacher from Richmond, Christchurch, was seen by a local resident on the Hastings station on Good Friday morning, lie then stated that he was on his wav to Gisborne. [Anxiety is felt in Christchurch, says the “ press,” for the safety of Air A. M. Davidson, assistant-master at the Richmond School, who lias not been seeu since April Ist. Air Davidson icsigned several weeks ago, but continued bis duties until the date mentioned. About 6.30 p.m. on April Ist be removed his effects from the Troca--1 dero Hotel, where he was staying,. but gave no indication of bis intentions. His mother, who resides in Dunedin. : visited Christchurch' Inst Friday. En- ■ quirics have lieen instituted, but so » far have proved unavailing. Air Dnvid- ) son. is an ex-soldier and suffered from ■ shell shock during the war.] ’ CARS FROAI AAIERTCA. WELLINGTON, April 13. “ Why should thousands of pounds 1 go from New Zealand to foreign countries for motor-cars ” asked Sir James

Parr in a speech this afternoon. "Was the British workman unable to meet our demands and requirements? That could not bo the case, lie declared. The trouble was one that could he rectified. He had no ill-feeling against America, who sent us so many cars. What ho said was in the interests of our beloved Empire. The Americans would not have our goods. They erected tariff walls against our produce. ”1 think wo shall be very foolisli if wo do not see about getting our goods from within the Empire.” he said. "Tlie matter is very largely in our own hands.” FORGINi: AND UTTERING. THAMES. April 15. William F. Walker, charged with forging and uttering a cheque, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. He also pleaded guilty to the theft of two horses and was sentenced to three months on each of two charges. The evidence showed that Walker (Mine from Dunedin to Tairua and made the acquaintance of two women named Oxley. He rode with one woman to Purin where he sold his own horse. It appeared that he proposed marriage to her and they came to 'Thames for the ceremony, but. on the woman finding (fiat he had sold her and her sister’s horses she gave information to the police who -arrested him. It was found that he was a married man for whom a warrant had been issued at Dunedin for the maintenance of two children.

SOLDIKIt SETTLEMENT FATA I.ITY DANNEYIRKK. April 15.

A fatal Accident occurred at the Glengarry soldier settlement this morning when J. F. Tidsweli. one ol the setters, married, with one child, was found dead in a deep ditch alongside ihe road into which his horse and carl, had fallen w hen on the way home from the factory. TidsweH was much injured lahout the head, and it is presumed that he was knieked by the horse, lie was very popular and was one of the leaders on the block.

PIONEER'S DEATH. HASTINGS. April 15

John Molnlen. a well known sheep farmer at Hawke’s Bay. died this morning, aged 80. He arrived with his parents from Lancashire when II years old and settled in Hawke’s Bay whore he has resided since. He possessed mi intimate knowledge of the natives and in the old days the native court lirueLit.ioni.yrs paid the utmost attention to his ideas regarding native claims, when large tracts were being dealt with. The late Mi-Molnlen served on the IVaipnwa County Council and the Hospital Board.