DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

IBY TELEGRAPH--PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SLY GROGGING. TAU.UARUNCI, September 10. At the Magistrate’s Court helorc Mr Orr-Walker, S.M., Norman Bell, on a charge of keeping liquor lor sale, was fined 810. William Frost, charged with ordering whisky without notifying it was to be sent or taken into a proclaimed area, was lined LMu. A woman accomplice was lined LIO.

A RUSH FATALITY. TAUT ARE, September 10. ,\ fatal accident, occurred yesterday at .Moriimotn, near Taihape.. when Allred Norman Clarence Anderson was killed and William Brown injured internally. as the result of a rope breaking and Hying back on the men. An inquest was opened and adjourned till. Brown was lit to give evidence. GIPSY SMITH. AUCKLAND. September 10. The President and Secretary of the Dominion Executive of Gipsy Smith's .Mission, in an official statement says Smith has neither asked for, nor been given any financial guarantee other than sufficient to meet bare expenses for himself and Mr and Mrs Young, his helpers. Neither he nor his co-workers are in receipt of a salary from us and he has no financial interest whatever in the collections at meetings. The committee has decided, however, t'. give hint whatever freewill offerings are handed in for that purpose, and on tlio final <lny. next Sunday, tlio proreeds of his lecture. It is expected there will he a loss, not a profit, on the sale of livinii hooks.

FINED FOR POACHING. AUCKLAND, September 10. “ They have probably made a nice profit out of it.” said Mr V. N. Hubble, in the Police Court, when Phillip Brady was charged with picking oysters at Tamaki. Accused pleaded guilty, hut said be did not know lie was doing wrong in nicking mud oysters. Mr Hubble, on helm If of the .Marine Department, said accused lived with his nephew. Walker. For some time he bad been buying a few sacks from the Government Depot and selling a quantity largely in excess of that bought hv him. Apparently he went out with Walker in a boat, believed to he owned by the latter, to pick oysters from the rocks. A watch had been set luit the Inspector could not ente'i Walker, who was believed to he behind the business. Accused had been caught when the Inspector went round by laud in a motor ear. When intercepted lie had half a sack and a kerosene tin of oysters. When his home was visited, a pile of shells equal to about 35 sacks was found. Only about 14 sacks were this year’s shells, so that the offence had apparently been continued for a long time, Mr Hubble asked that the 'boat, which was worth t t or L 5, should he confiscated, so as to reach Walker.

The accused, an old age pensioner, was tiiiofl gj. and Magistrate Hunt ordered the boat to he confiscated. GENEROUS BEQUEST. WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. Particulars of the late Mr Weir's lritidsome legacy In Victoria College show that tlio terms of the will require that one-hall' of the residuary estate, what! he applied in the purchase of a site and the erection of a building for the purpose of a men’s residential college in connection with Victoria College, and controlled by the College Council. The remaining half of the residuary estate is to he held by the Public Trustee, upon trust, to pay and apply the income arising therefrom to the maintenance and endowment of the residential college referred to: for the repair and upkeep of the building and its equipment, for the establishment of bursaries, and gencmilly for the benefit of general purposes of the college. Tt is at present too early to state the amount of the residuary estate. It is expected, however, that the not amount will approximate £60.009. If this is realised, a sum of £30,000 will within a few years he available to the Victoria College Council for the purchase of the site and the erection of the men’s residential college, while the remaining £30,009 will he retained hv the Public Trustee in the terms of the will, and the income made available from time to time ns the University Council, by its resolution, directs and appoints. Mr Weir also bequeathed sums of from £IOO to £IOOO to various societies, the latter amount to Rents College. Wellington. He was 88 at the time of his death. He arrived in New Zenaud in 1864

fortune gone. PALMERSTON N.. Sept. 8. “When I gave a piano to my wife six or seven years ago, I was worth from £IO,OOO to £12,000. Now I have nothing, and am keeping five children under the ago of fourteen years, only one of my nine children being a wage earner.” said n bankrupt. James Adams, a farmer, formerly of Woodside, in the course of his public examination at the Palmerston Courthouse. Ho stated that he now had nothing beyond what lie earned in a garage at Hastings, and apart from furniture his wife had nothing. He had been served with two summonses earlier in the year, but he could not pay the debt. From the time when he went on to his farm he had had a struggle, and in March lie made up his mind'to file a petition in bankruptcy. On March 3rd he had drawn a cheque for £-15 for necessities, and on March 20th. had a cheque for £0 from the United Dairy Company. When ho filed he might have had about £2O in hand. He had registered his wife’s car in his name, as ho was driving it, hut it had been seized by the Deputy-Official Assignee. When he drew the cheque from the Dairy Company and asked them to hold over a debit for goods until the following month he had already filed, hilt the cream he was sending to the factory was enough to pay for groceries. After further questioning of bankrupt' the examination concluded. TARANAKI INQUESTS. HAWERA. Sept. 10.

At an inquest at Mannin to-day on the death of Samuel Prout, farmer, of Inaha. a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane.

William Brooksbv. aged 1(5. or orphan inmate of the Salvation Home at Elthain. suffered injuries sustained by a fall from a pony while bringing in cows. He died later at Hawera Hospital. At t..e inquest tlie verdict was one of accidental death.

GISBORNE TRAMS OPPOSED. GISBORNE. Sept. 10. The ratepayers of Gisborne have decided to apply for an order revoking the tramway system, by a majority of one hundred and thirty-three votes. Only two-fifths of the ratepayers voted. DRUNKEN MOTORIST. WELLINGTON. Sept. 10. For being drunk while in charge of a motor van, William Wooland. a butcher, was fined by Mr Page, S.M., £2o, and his driving license cancelled for three years. Tt was stated that at a high speed he drove into a motor van. His van was overturned, suffering damage to the. extent, of £1,50. He was employed by his father.