DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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DUNEDIN EXHIBITION

DUNEDIN, Jan. 4. tlio liquidators of the N.Z. and South Seas Exhibition Cov (Ltd.) have declared a second a final dividend of 3s 7d iri the £ on all the share capital and donations, thus making, with the first dividend alreadv paid o total refund of 10s Id in tho £.

Ihe liquidators' statement of accounts for the period from July 20 last to the completion of the liquidation shows t'o ' £13.197 Is oil was received Irom s' I. • - o oOfi 10s Sd from sundry delito* - :'o | s .jj ( | f|. olu interest, and £122 7 1 from sundry recoveries. Anton ■' ■■■ payments were £1209 4s 2d on bull “ ■ s and erections. £ll9 13s 3d on general expenses. £OB9 18s on a pictorial history of the Exhibition, and £654 18s on the official record. The payment of the first dividend of 12s Gd m the £ absorbed £51.755 1.3 s 9d, ami the payment of the second dividend absorbed" £14,836 12s 7d.

SHIPPING TROUBLE. AUCKLAND. Jan. 4. Trouble regarding the accommodation for the crew on the coastal steamer Gunbar was settled to-day. The crow signed on in the afternoon.'and the vessel sailed at seven o’clock for Gisborne alter being delayed in part for three and a-linlf days. ASTT-U)NOMF.R’S- DEATH. AA'AXO ANUI, Jan. 4. Advice Ims been received at AAanganui of the death at AYairoa to-night of Air J'. T. AYard. who was in business here for many years as a bookseller. retiring a few months ago. Deceased was a. well-known astronomer and at tho (into of death was in charge of tho city’s observatory. RAILAVAY TRAFFIC. AVERT !ING TON. Jan. 4. Tho total number of passenger tickets sold from the AA’ellington hooking offices from Ist. December. 1926 to 3rd. January 1927. shows n falling off of 7001. compared with the same period last year. There was a big increase in the long distance bookings and the falling off was in the shorter trips, this is attributed to tho increased use of the motor-car for shorter distances. NARROW ESCAPE AUCKLAND. Jan. 5. A- Simpson and J. Tlovd had a narrow escape front drowning in Taniaki River, off Point England, when a boat capsized and sank. B. Bond and D. Tretliul fishing half a mpc away rowed hard to tho rescue of the exhausted men. the former jumping in fully clothed and dragging both to the rescue boat First aid had to he rendered when hauled aboard. PIONEER’S DEATH. DUNEDIN, .Tan. 5. Obitnarv—Sir John Ross, aged 92. the founder of the firm of Ross ;md Glendining. Tie was born at Caithness, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in 1.861. Benefactions during lifetime included twenty thousand sterling to the Presbyterian Church, and Knox College, five thousand to the Ross Tlomo named (after him.

INQUEST VERDICT. AY EL LING TON, Jan. 5. At an inquest yesterday on the death of n hoy, Patrick Alee Tuoliy. aged nine, who was drowned in the harbour oil Sunday afternoon the evidence showed that deceased could not swim. Ho had no fear of water and had expressed a desire for a swim. No one saw him enter the A verdict of death by drowning, no blame being attachable to anyone, was returned.

NURSERYMEN MEET. AUCKLAND, January 5. For many years the New Zealand Nurserymen’s Association lias urged the Government to consider the advisability of the registration of all engaged in the growth and the sale ol plants, and yesterday at the annual conference it was warmly supported by a number of remits calling on the Government to act in the matter, it declared that the industry suffered more from shops which bought stocks liap-luv-ardly. than as a result of outside competition. A CHILD’S DEATH. FOXTON. .Tim. 4. A two-year old son of Ernest Ferguson, factory manager at Oroua Downs*, drank from a bottle containing carbolic acid last evening and died shortly after.

BREAKING AND ENTERING. HAMILTON, Jan. 5. Frank Hubbard, charged with breaking and entering a store at Patetonga, pleaded guilty at Aforrinsville and was committed to the Supreme Court at Hamilton for sentence. DEATH IN HOSPITAL. AVAIROA, January 5. The death lias occurred of Joseph T. AVnrd. F.R.A.S., of AYaiignmii. Deceased went into the County Hospital and was operated on for appendicitis, but peritonitis set in a few days later and lie passed away last night. He was Director of Wanganui Observatory and well known and highly in Wanganui, where lie had resided for thirty years. He leaves a grown up family of four soils and three daughters. A A TAN’S DEATH. NAPIER, January 5. James Henry, aged 53. died at Napier to-day. as tbe result of a fall off a cycle at Hastings a few days ago. A THEFT. MARTON, January 5. ’While the Muriel Starr Coy were playing “ French Leave ” at the Town Hall yesterday evening the dressing rooms were ransacked and a small sum stolen. Entrance had been gained by a stairway at the rear of the hall. The police arrested a man on suspicion, but later released him. FOUND DEAD. INVERCARGILL, January 5. James Douglas Low, aged 20, son of a fanner at lhiyswater, was found dead tips morning with a pea rifle lying beside the body, shot through the head. He was seen the previous evening with a rifle.