DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEOKAPB —PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

H.M.S. DUNEDIN. AUCKLAND, January 24

H.M.S. Dunedin, the flagship of the New Zealand division of the Navy, is to leave Auckland at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow for England to refit. Sihe will lie absent for six months.

To-day Commodore G. P. T. C. Swabey transferred bis broad pennant to the Diomede, which will be the flagship until the Dunedin’s return.

Captain J. S. M. Ritchie, of the Diomede, will he m command of the Dunedin.

THEATRE OFFICE BURGLED. WELLINGTON, January 25. At four o’clock on -Monday morning the safe in the office of the King George Theatre, Lower T-lutt, was blown open, and some of tlhc contents stolen. The office is situated in an arcade in the Town Hall building, the door of the office having been forced and a charge of explosive being used on the safe which blew the door completely off. The sound of the explosion was heard, however, and the burglars, disturbed by the approach of a person who was proceeding to investigate, hastily decamped, with only a small portion of a fairly large sum which the safe contained. As this crime follows «m others of similar characters, there is belief that a gang of exports are operating in the ■Wellington District.

MOTOR LORRY FATALITY. WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. An inquiry was to-dav bold as to the death of Alexander Williamson, aged 72 years, who as knocked down by a motor lorry at Kelli- Terrace on December 14th.. and died live days later. The driver/if the lorry. Arthur Charles Archer, said that when his vehicle was approaching a tram-stop, the deceased suddenly stepped out from behind a pillar box. AVitucss applied the brakes but one niudgnrd struck AA illiamson on the right side. AATlness took deceased to the latter's home, and AA illiamson said be required no medical attention.

A verdict, was returned that death as due to heart failure. brought toil t by degeneration of the' heart, •corn'll through being knocked down ■cidcyitally by a motor lorry.

INQUEST ON MOTOR VICTIM. DUNEDIN. Jan. 21. The adjourned inquest into the eir

eumstanees of the death ot Margaret Mnrio Hubbard was continued to-day before Air Bartholomew (Coroner). The evidence showed that the deceased was being driven by her brother. James Coulter Hubbard, in a Ford motor truck, from the city to AA’aitati. When going down 'hill into AVaitati, the driver lost control through a mishap to the machinery, and (He vehicle dashed at a high speed down the hill, and at the corner it overturned, the voting lady being killed and the brother seriously injured. At the conclusion of the evidence the Coroner found that the accident occurred through a nut which held the level pinion of the driving shaft coming off. and this deprived the ear of all engine and foot control. A split pin had been left out when the car was overhauled, and this showed carelessness. The verdict was that death was due to the accidental overturning of the car. A COLLISION. •CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 25. This morning a man named Jooscph Robinson, while' rifling a motor cycle at the intersection of Cashel Street and East Belt: came into collision with a motor car. Robinson, who sustained bead injuries and a. fractured left ankle, was admitted to Hie hospital seriously injured.