DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[I3Y TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PORT LYTTELTON. CHRISTCHURCH. June 10. Details of a further loan of £300,000 for which it seeks legislative authority. where placed before the Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day. Discussion was held over till next meeting.

A report liv Engineer (Mr C. J. R. Williams) set out that- applications were now coming in for the balance of tlio Board’s t 150,000 loan, and he anticipated that in a few days, the amount of .£50,200 required to exhaust the Board’s borrowing powers of £150,000 would have been obtained. It was proposed, lie stated, that the allocation of the expenditure of the new loan should he as follows; Additions to “wharves, £85.000; cranes and capstans on wharves, £82,400; travelling crane at dock, £12,000 ; new dredge, £120,000.

MIT.I.EBTON MINE OUTBREAK WESTPORT. June 16.

A tiro which occurred last week in a section of the Westport Con pany's Millcrton Milie has practically been sealed off, and coal production was resumed on Monday.

COMPANY DIRECTOR DISAPPEARS AUCKLAND, .June IG.

For some days anxious inquiries have been made ill Auckland concerning the present whereabouts of a financial agent, who has become fairly well known in some circles in the city, and now a warrant has been issued for his arrest. He has disappeared, anil with him have also disappeared, it is alleged, some funds, together with details of a number of enterprises ill the course of promotion. A curious feature of his disappearance is that there is no apparent reason why the man should forsake his usual haunts, for it is stated that there was every possibility of his eventually enriching himself considerably; a.t least some of the enterprises which wre in the course of establishment being said to he promising. Until recently, the promoter of these concerns occupied a large suite of offices in the heart of the city, the personnel of the office stall', and office fittings being in keeping with the magnitude of the undertakings. An account for over £l5O as rent for ttlie suite is said to he outstanding. It was when one ol several enterprises was about to be placed before the public for examination and for subscription of the necessary capital that the first suspicion that all was not well was aroused. The provisional directors were assembled to finalise the details mid receive the first moneys that were to be paid into tlio ciimapiiy. Everyone was there to time except the promoter. The usual grace allowed to u busy mini expired, but when, after a further period had elapsed, inquiries were made, it was found that no meeting could be held that day. The promoter hail lelt the day before on a train journey. ami from that journey he has not yet returned.

A LUCKY GIRL. GISBORNE. June 16. This evening, a young girl, named Walker, whose parents reside at Runtoria, was knocked down by a motor car while crossing a, street intersection. hut fortunately she sustained no injuries more serious than a badlybruised forehead. A FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH. .June 16. Thomas John Measlian, who was found unconscious at the loot of a ladder leading down to the boat deck of the Riiiihinc at Lyttelton yesterday died at the hospital to-night. Measliau worked his passage out as a seaman. It is believed lie intended to sign off at Lyttelton.

SUICIDE. TIMARU. June 16

Patrick Cassidy, fanner, of Sur.nerlands, aged 52 years, found with a wound in Ids throat on Tuesday, and died that night. At tlio inquest today the verdict was that death was due to a razor wound, self indicted, white of unsound mind. The evidence showed deceased had been depressed latch, and in indifferent health.

YOUNG MAX’S SUICIDE. CHRISTCHURCH. June 16

The inquest touching tie death of Walter Leslie Biickngham. aged 27. a farmer, of Papanui, who was loiind dead in the. kitchen of his house with his head in a basin of water, on Alay 29th. was resumed this morning, Before Air H. A’. AViililowson. coroner, who returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of acute melancholia. FIVE-DAY AYEEK FIGHT. AUCKLAND. June 16.

The stand on the part of the Union delegates for a holiday on Satin da.. in refusing which the companies are equally firm, has led to a suspension of discussion on the terms of the pioposed new agreement for the North Island coal mines those at Glen Afton, Pukeniiro, AVaipa, Tupiri. Hikurangi and AVilson’s Collieries.

'['lie conference will resume on Tuesday, prior to which tin* 1 niou delegates will have consulted the miners, and have discussed with them a statement which the companies’ delegates submitted to the conference. The owners, stand is based on demands with which their output will be faced as the result of an order for coal from the New Zealand Railways Department. It is the first that the\ have received for many years, at the time when normal orders are sufficient to keep the mines working full time.

A BIG FUNERAL. iCHRISTCHI'RCH. June 17. The funeral of Mr C. E. BevanBrown, formerly headmaster of Boas High School, was held, this morning, and included a service at the Cathedral, and attended by thousands, ineluding hundueds of old hoys. The route along Worcester Street was lined hv present scholars in double rows. Wreaths were sent from all over the country.

A FATALITY. DCNEDIS, June 17

At tho Railway Workshops, Donald Septimus Crossan, a boiler maker was killed this morning. He had climbed up to turn off an air cork and was descending wlicn his clothes c-auglit in the shafting machinery and he was whirled to death. He was married, with two children.

MOTOK CYCLE ACCIDENT. OAMARU, June <7

A motor cycle ridden bv fames Saville with '"William Palget.v in a side-car, crashed through a fence mar Knkamii last night. Saville was precipitated over a sixty foot cliff into tho sea. The occupants of a following ear gave timely aid and both men ie now "in Onmaru Hospital, Saville with head injuries and Dalgety with injuries to his thigh, and progressing favourably.

TORTURING A HORSE, WANGANUI. June 17.

Harry Cahill, familiarly known as Queensland Harry, a well-known showman. was charged at the Court to-day with ill-treating a horse at Dannevirke on February 10th. It was alleged that during a buck..-jumping competition defendant did torture a horse. Defendant was fined £5 and costs £l- - 6d.