DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by telegraph-—run press association.]

AN ARREST.

HAAIILTON, August 19.

An important arrest was made at Cambridge yesterday, when a man, Frederick Baueke, was apprehended on charges of fraud, allegedly obtaining collections of stamps by ingenious methods of advertising in different papers of the Dominion. Baueke is a local resident.

THE AAIENDE HONORABLE, NAPIER, August 18

At to-day's mooting of the Napier Harbour Board, the Chairman (Air A. F. •Tull) stated lie cheerfully withdrew any statement he had made in Napier on April Ist, 1925, imputing that the .Minister of .Marine was unfriendly toward a particular harbour under construction. Air Jull was reported then as saying: “It is a. very unfair position to make an inquiry where it was known the Minister was unfriendly to the particular harbour construction. As a. general principle an officer knowing his chief, will colour a. report to satisfy his chief. I am not saying Air Burkett did it.” A CHARGE FAILS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 19. Ernest Alfred Akins, manager of Andrew Lees and Co., large painters and decorators, was charged at the. Supreme Court to-day that on October Ist with intent to defraud he attempted to obtain £2 19s from Carl Gustave Johansen by falsely representing that two drums of paint were No, 1 Brand and not No. 2. The Crown :»iid the case involved a serious and contemptible fraud, and was part of a system. An objection was raised by counsel for the defence and certain evidence was declared inadmissable, and the Crown did not go on, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty.

DOMINION’S REPUTATION IN LONDON.

AUCKLAND, August 17

‘‘ln financial quarters they say New Zealand can get any money she wants and in political circles is held in the highest possible estimation. In fact, she is on the pinnacle.”—Thus the Hon R. 11. S. Abbott, M.L.C., of Victoria, on New Zealand’s standing in London.

Mr Abbott is a member of the Parliamentary Association, so he naturally came in contact with people who are au fait with Empire polities. One of his sons is director of an. influential London financial firm and Air Abbott is well able to gauge opinion on that side of the question. Returning by the Niagara from a world trip. Mr Abbott intends staying over a while to visit bis son, Dr TV. N. Abbott, of Epsom. Although, his heart naturally is in Victoria, Air Abbott takes a keen interest in New Zealand’s future and when in London was particularly struck by the* very high .position the Dominion holds in the estimation of the people who guide the Empire’s destinies. He was present at a gathering of influential people in Westminster which was addressed by Sir Francis Bell, with Earl Jellicoe in -the chair. The meeting was wonderfully impressed with Sir Francis Bell’s resume of what New Zealand was doing iii the Pacific.

“ It is such incidents,” remarked Air Abbott, ‘‘which bring New Zealand into prominence at Home and cause people an positions of power and authority to have such a high opinion of her.”

PHOTOGRAPHY. INTER-CLUB COMPETITION. DUNEDIN, Aug. 17. A display of tho exhibits of tho photographic clubs that participated this year in the inter-club competition of New Zealand was opened to-day. 1 This competition originated in Dunedin. Now that it lias spread over the Dominion the judging is alternately in each island. The entries are limited to twelve by each club, and no individual member may enter more than two pieces. Invercargill has won five times, and Dunedin three times in previous years, and now in the ninth year Dunedin wins again. The points awarded are as follows: Dunedin Photographic (Society ... 1127 Wellington Camera Circle 1119 Auckland Camera Club 1018 Invercargill Camera Club - 1011 Wellington Amateur Photographic Society 928 Christchurch Photographic Society 900 Timaru Photographic Society ... 79" Masterton Photographic l Society 700 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. CAUTIONED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 17. The breach of privilege committed by tho ‘‘Dominion” newspaper in publishing part of tho proceedings before tho Locfil Bills Committe on the Napier Harbour Board Bill was brought before the House of Representatives again to-night, when AD* Speaker read letters from tho editor and publisher, following which the Prime Minister moved that in view of explanations and expressions of regret which had been tendered, the House should take no further action other tlilm cautioning the editor and the publisher as to the necessity of exercising greater care in regard to the publishing of information which by reasonable enquiry would have been discovered to he of a confidential and privileged nature. Mr H. E. Holland spiel that the editor’s letter did not give the information ahked for by Ah 1 Speaker as to who supplied the information to the paper. (Hear, hear). The information could not have been given to the reporter by a. member of the Committee, because he would know that it was /a breach of privilege, and oofUd not have acted in ignorance. if it had been given by one of those who appeared before the Committee, theHouse ought to knew the name of the individual who gave the information, and the Prime Minister’s motion should have Included that. The motion moved by the Prime Minister was agreed to.

REMANDED. TIMARU, August 19. At the Magistrate's Court. Owen Joseph Francis McKee, was further remanded till August 25th. on a charge of having murdered Duval Earle England, at Makikihi on July 29th. INQUEST VERDICT. AUCKLAND, August 19. , Mr Hunt, S.M., acting-Coroner. at an inquest on Margaret Florence Dooley, aged 30, found that deceased died of injuries received when struck hy a motor-car driven by Jack Jvynaston Hale, on July 23. Deceased after stepping off a tram walked in front of Hales’ car. CONTACT WITH ELECTRIC POWER TIMARU, August 19. By accidentally coining into contact with a sixty-six thousand volts line at Grant’s Hill sub-station, John Day, aged 20, received injuries necessitating his removal to the hospital. He is severely burned about the chest and arms, but is expected to make a good recovery.