DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

LBY TKLKGKAI*n- -I'KU PI’.ESS ASSOCIATION.] COURT NEWS. DUX KOIX, Auk- - r >- In the Police Court it mini was charged with trespassing ami was remanded for a week as being in an unfit condition to ploud, the Senior-Sergeant stating that the defendant had confessed to drinking twelve bottles of methylated spirits within the last two days.

MIS LEA DING LABEL. DUNKDIXj, Aug. 2b. Margaret Wills, licensee of the AVharf Hotel was fined £2O for selling whisky in a bottle hearing a misleading label. It was stated that the analysis showed the sample to correspond with the hotel’s draught whisky. COPJNTHTC’S PASSENGF.ItS. AUCKLAND.' Aug. 2<>. The southern passengers by the Corinthie go south by two expresses tonight. A third class passenger for Auckland, Mrs Piggery, died on the voyage. damages awarded. AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. In the action for damages against W. J. Grevntt and Sons, Contractors, for injuries caused by a tlag pole falling from an hotel building under reconstruction, plaintiffs skull being fractured, a Supreme Court Jury awarded £SO 8s Gd special and £IOOO general damages. Counsel for defendants obtained leave to apply for a new trial. The ease was adjourned for further consideration.

ALLEGED ILLEGAL STRIKE. WIT AN GAR El, Aug. 25. Arising out- of a recent strike at Wilson’s Colleries, Hiknrangi, one hundred and twenty-six miners were cited at the Whangarei Court this morning for being parties to an unlawful strike. A defence wns filed for every application. The hearing was adjourned to Sept. 7th., Twenty-two additional summonses of a similar nature are being issued. HOSPITAL ENQUIRY. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 25. The allegation that the treatment received by one little patient at the Bottle Lake Hospital was not all .it should have been, resulted in a decision for a special inquiry by the Hospital Board to-day. The father of the child made serious charges concerning the poor attention and neglect of the child which died. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. WAITII, Aug. 25. Mrs Jane .Erwin (wife of Thomas Erwin) attempted to take her life early yesterday morning. Sbe was missed from her bedroom and a search by her daughter resulted in finding her mother hanging over a bricked in copper. She pulled her outUand was horrified to find her mother covered with blood from several gasbes in the throat. The unfortunate woman was taken to the hospital, where she lies in a critical condition. She was a victim of the 1918 epidemic and lost a son thereby and had never since recovered her normal health,