DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[jJs* TELEG It A PH—PfcK i’P.ESS ASSOCIATION.] DIED FROM IXJrJUFS AUCKLAND, Feb. 28. Emily Owens, a. single woman, uged thirty-live, died at the hospital In.in injuries caused through being knocked down by a taxi driven by Thomas L. Grice. VAGRANCY t ifAltOfi. AUCKLAND. Feb. 28. A t tbe !’■ lice ('oiirt .) can ( Ivor go Vigor.:n , : Id-: wife on a vagrancy charge ■ convicted and ordered to come i : -idonrr if railed, on i lie ennditi t both leave tbe Dominion. T ile o::se to leave lor Papeete l.y the ...mor Tahiti. FIRES AT GiSBORNE. LfSRORXE, February 28. .'■l four o'clock this morning, a (ire broke cut in an eight-roomed house owned by the estate of the late C. R. Davie . and occupied h\- Dr MrSweeney. One room was destroyed, and the remainder of ilie building was damaged by water. Dr -.lcSweeney ami his wife woke at the sound of crackling of the Haines and escaped in their night attire. The, house was insured in Lhe National j Office for two thousand. Miss Davies’ furniture, which remained in the residence, was insured for live hundred in the same office, and Dr M(Sweeney's furniture and surgical instruments were insured for live hundred in the South British. At 8.30 the Brigade turned out again to a minor outbreak, also in Kaiti, hut there was no damage. This marked the third occasion the Brigade lias been called out since the Dominion delegates to the Fire Brigade Conference began to assemble in Gisborne, the first outbreak', occurring on Saturday morning, when a six-roomed house al Tahaparn was destroyed.

COLLISION FATALITY. (TIRIST'CnrRC!!. February 28. Thomas Gray, a married man, was seriously injured in a motor accident yesterday at the IliispiLal corner. He dial in the hospital last evening. Gray was in a ear driven bv one Mel lines, which collided with a pole. The driver and another passenger were unhurt, but Gray received injuries to the head from which lie died. DEATH UNDER OPERATION. WELLINGTON. February 28. An inquest was held by Mr Riddell to-day concerning the death of Harold Lane Reriand, Island Ray. at the Wellington Hospital, while under an operation for the (Tearing of the air passages. following an attack of diphtheria. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to diphtheria toxima. TRAGEDY IN A LONELY WHARF. HASTINGS, February 28. The charred remains of a mail were found in the debris of a wliare that was burnt down last night at Wannaranni. The lire was discovered about ten o’clock this morning. The body is believed to he that, of a man named T. If. I.and), aged (if) years, and married, lull living alone in the wliare destroyed. Lamb owned a team of bullocks', and was well-known In that district for a considerable number of years. He is supposed in have a son in the Palmerston district. AY DDL MARKET. NAPIER. Feb. 28. Till- fourtli Ac.pier Mil sale, vvliii h opened to-uighl. was quite the best held here this ■Cason. Competition was very keen with a, big demand from lhe Continent. particutirly France and Germany, for whom the hulk e.i niirk on the catalogue were suitable. I he.se wools showed an advance ol from Id to 2(1 on the last Napier sale, while uell grown and sound wools advanced n halfpenny. Pieces too were eaeerlv sought after at an improvement of 2d. but onlv good lambs’ wool showed advance, I lie re being no change in prices for medium and inferior !mn-hs - wool. Crutch ings remained nuaiteied. X.K.W. BOWLERS. AUCKLAND. March 1.

A parly of New South Wales bowlers arrived by the Mamma t i-day, purely on a social visit confined to the North Island. No test match will be played and the matches are limited to one nor day.

BROTHERS INJURED. I’AHIATUA, March I. I Walter Dick, aged 22, a son of James Dick, of Ngaturi, broke his leg above the ankle in a motor cycle collision, and was taken to the hospital. A vo linger 111-other is also in the hospital as the result of a serious acc-idenl with a slasher on Saturday. MAN DROWNED. AUCKLAND. March 1, Frank llollehon. aged 10, employed as a wharf foreman hv the Rouse: Shipping Coy. was drowned in the i i\-ii' at Mercer iui Monday ill lernooii. lie was knocked into the water through the grah on a binge alongside of a barge on which he was working, knocking him overboard. A fellow workman. Harry Gordon, dived to Ins rescue, but was forced to let go. owing to llollebun’s violent struggles. Ilollebou was formerly a shunter on the railways and leaves a widow and four young children found dead. AUCKLAND. March I George Thomas \\ bite, aged 17. was found dead in his bed in a room lenfed at Newton Road, with a gas tube from a meter close to his lace. He had been living apart from his wife alia leaves seven children. METHODIST FOREIGN MISSION. AUCKLAND. March 1. At the annual meeting ol the Board of the Methodist Foreign Mission Nurse Edna While and Miss MacDonald were act epted for work in the Solomons and will leave about .Tune. It was decided to request the conference to appoint Rev. S<-otter (secretary) and .T. \Y. C.ourt Hay treasurer) to represent the New Zealand church at semi-jubilee celebrations at Solomon Island next August. The following officers were elected— Rev. Sinclair (general secretary). Lc. . Goldie (chairman of Mission District),! Rev. Marshall and J. M. Court (treasurer). L. Knight CnmlitorV ALLEGED THEFT. AUCKLAND. March 1. Frederick Rav Humphrey, aged 28. charged with stealing Co ISs 10<1 from \ )> \Yri> r ht ami Son Ltd. was lemandi'd. the Chief Detective stating the total defalcations were in tile vicinitv of CoOO.