DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

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MOTOR COLLISION. AUCKLAND. Feb. 28.

A. motor car, driven by Claude Black, was almost completely wrecked at- Makitptma last evening through a

collision with a steam tramear. It was carried at ross I lie full width oi Cameron Street and thrown against an electric power post. M lie passengers, Edwin Hope of Oitehuuga, sustained a fractured collarbone and tut injury to his forehead, and Miss Ethel Black Tuts above the ear. The driver was extensively bruised.

FOUND SHOT. TE KITI'I. Feb. '2B. A well known fanner. William Jones, was found deVu.l on the front of his house at Mangaionga, twelve miles from Otnrohaiigu, with a gunshot: wound in the forehead on Saturday at .3.3:) p.m. Decease)' was a son of Mok.iu Jones who took a prominent party in the early history of Mokau and Awakino, Deceased for the last three years lias been at Tauranga where lie Look a prominent part ill loii.il politics. I.alcly lie purchased a la nil at .Mangaronga where the tragedy occurred. An inquest was held on Sunday, when a verdict was returned that deceased died from gunshot wounds, there being no evidence to show how they were inflicted.

STOLEN SHEEP. DRAFT OF FOUR HUNDRED. DUNEDIN, Feb. 27. Yesterday Detective Lean and Constable Maggin arrested a man named Robert Thomas Ferguson at Palmerston on a charge of having stolen 12(3 ewe sheep, the property of a person or persons unknown, it appears that the sheep were trucked by a person giving a fictitious name at Ealing (Canterbury) on February 18th.. consigned to another fictitious person at Hampden. There the consignment was taken delivery of by the accused. Ferguson, and the sheep were sent to Burnside, wlieto they were sold at 30s a head on February 23rd. The police are of the opinion that the sheep were stolen from the Ashburton stock district. They are half-bred merino, and were probably bred in the high country. They are branded with a wineglass brand, and marked with a hackquarter earmark. The ewes are mostly two-tooth, but there are a few four I and six-tooth amongst them. j Ferguson appeared before Justices | at Palmerston yesterday, and was remanded to appear at Dunedin on March Ith. There he will he charged with tlie theft of sheep valued at £<32o. from Mr D. G. Wright, Surrey Hills, Mayfield, Canterbury. A JUBILEE. PALMERSTON N., Feb. 27.

Jubilee proceedings commenced today uilh a combined church service in the Opera House. The weather is un-pi-opritions. A special programme lias been arranged for the rest of the week, coinciding with the Royal visit.