DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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CARS C'OLLIDR. THAMES, June 4. Archbishop Averill, en route from Auckland to Lhe Thames met with a motor mishap after leaving Pokeno when the service car by which he was 'ravelling was run into by another car 'hich stripjK'd the service car’s running hoard and one wheel. All the Archbishop’s luggage, including his robes were scattered in the mud but nobody was injured. A PROMPT MESSAGE. AVELLINGTON, June l. Ihe result ol the Derby for which he Eastern Extension Company made special arrangements not, however, inerteriiiig with regular traffic, came hrough with exceptional speed. The times lor the various places were: . ' 'biua. GO seconds; Australia. GO; New Zealand, Go; Straits Settlements, GO; Ceylon, In; India and South Africa, 15; Egypt, 10. VICE-REGAL TOUR. AUCKLAND, June -I. The Apia correspondent of the Anck'and “Star,” says the GovernorGeneral and Lady Alice Ferguson had i remarkably enthusiastic reception at Western Samoa. Each section of the Native and European Committees vicing with each other to honour the ViceRegal visitors. The climax to the visit was an open-air elmn'i service, held at \ ailima which was attended by about a thousand Samoans and many Europeans, including officers of (lie M.M.S. Diomede. After the service the Governor-General invested General Richardson with the Knighthood (Oillerred oil him hy the King.

JIDDA' FOUND IN RIVER. BLENHEIM. June 4. The body of AVillinm Henry Groves, aged 2d, single, was found in the Awatere River. He was employed as a cowman at AVeld’s Hill. Oil the morning of the 20th May he forded the liver on horseback with the mail and !, e failed to return. It is known that after crossing the river the met a companion who informed the police that the deceased had gone to Blenheim. Rflnris to locate the man failed, a search of the river resulted in the discovery of the body. ASSAULT ON A wom an. HA.AHLTON, June 2. “I ho molestation of young women by halt-drunken man blackoguards, is not to bo tolerated,” said Air AVvvern Wilson, S..AL, in sentencing a young man, Leo Patrick Crosby, on two charges of assaulting a couple of young Indies in the Hamilton Court to-day. The police stated that accused seized one of the young women and attempted to kiss her, and struck the other a violent hi ext- when she tains to the assist:nct' of hen* tonipanion. Accused, who said lie had been drinking, and pleaded ignorance of the occurrence, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to he concurrent. UN LA WE LL CONVERSION. AUCKLAND, June 2. The unlawful conversion of a motor car, on .Mav 2G, was admitted by. Albert George Larsen, aged 18, in the Police Court to-day. Ho also pleaded guilty to a. breach of probation, and to stowing away in the steamer Cl-inad-iau Explorer. Chief Detective Cummings said that accused had been previously convicted of theft. He had taken the motor car and used it for an evening joyride. He had no certiliiiite of competency.

Magistrate Poviiton : He is a menace on the road.

Th« Chief Detective: The unlawful use of cars is very prevalent, sixty ears having 'been ’“borrowed” M.tcc the beginning of the year. Accused took the car from Shorthand Street ami abandoned it near Grafton Bridge, and I must, ask for an example to be made of him.

The Magistrate f'The offence is very serious, and is U-ird to detect, A sentence of three months’ >mprisonment was passed with an additional two months for tho breach of pioinition. Accused was sentenced to seven days imprisonment, and was ordered to pay 15s costs on the charge ot stowing uvav on tho ship. A BOAT ASHORE. AUCKLAND, June 4.

The Koa, which is ashore at Twilight ihiv. is a 42ft craft owned by Harrison. It left Auckland a fortnight ago for Norfolk Island with the owner and two of a crew and put into Russell for a navigator from' Auckland. They intended to wait for the Endeavour, a schooner also bound for Norfolk Island, but evidently started out without her. AUCKLAND, June 4.

The launch Koa, hound from Auckland to the islands is ashore, at Twilight 11av. The crew are safe. GUILTY OF THEFT. MASTER-TON, June 4.

Robert Stanley Hanna, clerk to the Masterton County Council, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to theft of various sums totalling £349 3s 2d. Ho was committed to the Supreme Court. Wellington, tor sentence. A FATAL ENDING. PAHIATUA. June 4. Leslie Wilton, te victim of the car and cycle accident last Saturday has died in the hospital. OBITUARY. BLENHEIAI, June 4. Obituary.—The wife of S. M. Neville, aged 83. Deceased was well known in connection with the er.rly life of Marlborough.

A DONATION. BLENHEIM, June 1. .Mr and Airs G. F. AAhntts of Lansdowno.liavo donated £IOOO towards the cost of a chiming clock to bo incorporated in the tower erected in Blenheim to the fallen soldiers.