DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TEL EG RATH—PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

SALVATION ARMY SCHEME. 1

WELLINGTON, Jam 21. 011 board the Pakeha. which will arrive in Auckland on January 28th, are a party of farm youths, who are coming to the Dominion under the Salvation Army Immigration Department.

This will niialce over 400 hvho have come out under the Salvation Army boys’ farm scheme during the last two years. CUSTOMS RETURNS. WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. The overseas trade of New Zealand.

judging from the Customs returns for exports from the Dominion for the month of December, 1926. were £3,031_,698, and for the rear 1926. £45,275.5/0 For the month of December, 1920, tliev were £4,613.488, and for the year 1925 £55,262,272. Imports into New Zealand for the month of December 1926. were £4 288,096. and for the year 1926 £49.789.563. For the month of December, 1925. they were £4.641.751. and for the year 1925 £02,406,40/.

PIE-CART CAPSIZED. AUCKLAND, Jan. 21. Hot pies. tea. coffee, or cocoa will not bo dispensed from the ' Idea Coffco Palace” for some little time now. owing to an accident this morning which caused much havoc among th'o crockcrv and fittings. When about to turn into Voiles ey street shortly after eight o’clock this morning, the coffee palace, a wheeled vehicle was struck by a City Corporation motor-bus, the force of the impact. capsizing the lighter vehicle on to the traffic lines. There was a resounding crash of broken crockery, and the owner-driver. A. L. George, was thrown heavilv Against the wall of the driving seat. Ho managed to extricate hinisell with nothing more than shock. The “palace” was practically undamaged. hut an inspection of the interior revealed a state of chaos, most of the plates,' cups, and saucers, and fittings were smashed, and the damage is said to be fairly heavy. No damage was done to the bus. TTCK INVASION. WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. If. was stated to-day by Dr C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture that Die tick invasion discovered in Poverty Bay is limited to a small , area, in the Totaga Ray district.

The tick's are of the same variety as those further north anil though they have never been known to cause liny sickness among cattle or act as conveyers of disease, it is recognised that they are undesirable parasites and are capable of doing some damage to hides when in their present quantity. Accordingly a systematic elfoit is being made to stump thorn out- They are not the same as the tick in Queensland. which carries the tick fever from animal to animal. PRISONERS SENTENCED. CASES AT WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON. Jan. 21. Eight prisoners who hail pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to charges of crime were brought before Mr Justice Reed in the, Supreme Court to-day, for sentence. In sentencing William George ( uiidy to ten years’ imprisonment, with hard labour, for asmult on a male, his Honour said the case was a very bad one. Tn 1911 prisoner was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for interference with hoys and had been allowed out on license, and according to the police report, before the. expiration of that i term prisoner committed the offence 1 which he now admitted. | Appearing for Thomas Koo y (28). ' a labourer, who had admitted a charge of indecent assault on a female, Mr I. j ('. f Icary said that accused was a young man of low mentality and he had been so practically '.'II Ins lile. 11 is Honour said the case was ope in which the projection of children was involved, and a sentence 01 two years’ relorniai live detention was imposed. 1 “The crime was due to a craving for j alcoholic liquor,” said Air V . E. Luij tester, who appeared for William Aiawj son Chaunen, who admitted a charge of theft at Wellington. ’ His Honour said that in view ol all tho circumstances in tho case prisoner would bo left out for six months to see if ho con’d resist the craving. Bonds must be furnished for bis appearance 1 at tho end of the period specified, j Waiter Worthington (38), .a baker, I was sentenced to two years’ hard labour for forging and uttering at Napier. His Honour said prisoner had a, bad record. j Joseph Francis Ward (10), a labourer, and Albert .Joseph Bell (43), labourer, were each sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hat’d labour, 1 lor breaking and entering and theft at Palmerston North. Harold Joseph W hittle, alias Harold Tobin (25), motor mechanic, who admitted '.l charge of theft of a motor-car and of breaking and entering at Feilding, was sentenced to three years’ ini- 1 prisouinont with hard labour. His Honour said that accused had numerous previous convictions recorded against him. Mr J. W. Scott, who appeared for Joseph Perilo llowe (38), carpenter, who had" admitted a charge of theft at tho Upper Hutt, said that accused liad hitherto borno an excellent chaiticter in the district. Ilis Honour admitted accused to probation for two years on condition that he made restitution of tho amount stolen in sums to he fixed by the probation officer. SOLICITOR DEAD. TIM ABU. Jan. 22. W. E. Kinnery. for many years lnemhcT of the finny of Perry. Perry and Kinnerv, Solictors, died this morning, aged 72. Deceased was horn at "West Oxford, Ireland, in 1854 and came tn New Zealand in 1802. He was educated at a private school at Xew Plymouth and came to Timaru in 1891 and joined the firm of Perry and Perry the same year. Deceased was a lawyer of outstanding parts and a recognised authority on Muncipal. Harbour Board and Banking Law. MASSING MAX. OITA KUNE. Jan. 22. Search parties scouring the hush for a lost settler. F. J. Square, of Afanoanui. Otcau, near Raitahi have now given, tin the search as hopeless. Squire was first missed on January sth. The general opinion is that the missing man fell over a bluff while pig-hunting.

ROY NEARLY BROWNED. AUCKLAND. January 23. Burley Smith, aged six years, got out, of his depth at Point Chevalier while bathing this afternoon. He was rescued just in t-ime. and was sent to' the hospital. His condition is not serious.