DOMINION ITEME.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEME.

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•i udgE’s str run;res. CHRISTCHURCH, March I. in the course of the pronouncement of the freezing award, in which certain increases are given, Judge Frazer, says he feels impelled to make reference to the numerous resolutions that have been passed by different bodies during the pending ol the present proceedings and communieated to newspapers, calling on the Government to introduce legislation for the repeal of the Act. It is , ; (our.-e quite proper and h gitiimr e : interested hodie.- m agiRRe lor lepeal o! an act or uholiOon oi ■■ > ; says the Judge, “hut

it is uni : r.nate that they should have ehosLii a tune when an important '••■Iso iviis pending before this Court, to pass the resolutions in question, it may have been only a eoniiieidem e hut it is to he regretted that at such a time any concerted action should have taken place that might have had the appearance oi being intended to influence or intimidate the Court.”

SUPREME COURT. AUCKLAND. March 4. The .Supremo Court was asked by creditors in a business to assess remuneration of liquidator but tliis. Solicitor Gould said he was in a difficult position as his client had not been seen since Wednesday. He bad not been home nor at Ids office. His Honour: "Has he. got tin£3so.” AD- Towle, for creditors: “Yes. be lias got the money.*’ Solicitor Gould said that the neighhour of the missing man stated lie had been suffering from illness contracted in Egypt. Air Towle said tliil; the liquidator had to l..'ike claim of £350 for remuneration. Creditors contended that, the amount was far in excess of that deserved. A dividend of 12s Gel in the pound had been paid, and the liquidator retained £350. He had merely acted as a bookkeeper and bad signed cheques. Air Gould said it would be disputed that the liquidator had been merolv a. bookkeeper, 11 is Honour adjourned the ease till Wednesday next, to obtain a report bv the public accountant. FINED £SO. WELLINGTON, .March 3. Two men alleged by the police to be acting for a wealthy principal were to-day fined £SO each, in default three months’ imprisonment by the -Magistrate Air Salmon. One. William I liomas Richardson. .35. canvasser, admitted carrying on business as a bookmaker. and the other. John James Black, a bootmaker. IS, pleaded guilty to keeping a common gaming house. LOST IN RANGES. ALL HOPE GIVEN' UP. BLENHEIM’, March I. Practically all hope of finding Erie Lee Palmer Young, the school teacher who has been missing in the Benmore ( ountry since Sunday last, has muv been abandoned. The search was kept ii 11 all day yesterday, and a small party, including the unfortunate young man’s father, was out to-day, but- it is understood that unless the missing man is located by this evening, the search will he relinquished.

There seems liLtlc doubt that Palmer. after leaving his companions, attempted to penetrate into the country known as No Mail’s Land at the hack of Benmore. This is sleep, precipitous country, characterised in many places h\- sheer precipices 30(1 and TOO feet in height, and containing many enormous shingle slips. An attempt to cross some ol these slips is fatal, as the shingle, once set roi the move, would inevitably luiry the adventurer. It is feared that Palmer has probably been tarried down in one of these slips. In any ease the country in the vicinity is so rugged and broken that it is almost impossible to traverse, and the searchers’ task would he siiper-

human, and almost certainly foredoomed to failure, as it would be quite possible to he within a few feet of tile missing man and never see hint. DAIRY .MANAGER FOUND Sill):. DUNEDIN, .March i. James Findlay, the manager of the Alosgiel Daily Coy. was found in his office to-night with a bullet wound in lii.s head. He was taken to the hospital in a serious- condition, lfe is not expected to live. Findlay >s a married man. .33 years of ago. Ho had been in ill health for some time. It is .thought to he a ease of suicide. £2001) CLAIM. CHRLSTCU URCH. March 1. Noble Frank Lowndes, late Branch ALmager of the Australian Provincial Assurance Coy.. Ld., Wis issued a two thousand pounds damages for alleged wrongful dismissal. A SHOPLIFTER. CH IMSTOI URCH. March 4. A widow appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day charged with shoplifting and wilh liming stolen goods lo the value of £1 T7s front the Flannel's Co-op Stores. The Magistrate suppressed the name of the woman, who had no previous convictions, and imposed a fine of £2. in default 11 days. The Magistrate warned the woman that if she came before him again lor a similar offence she would he sent, to gaol. THEFT BY TIPSY MAN, DUNEDIN. March I, Although Ambrose Albert Phillips had over £6OO in the Savings Bank, lie appeared at the Police (unit this morning, charged with the (licit oi a fountain pen, valued at 20s. the property of a clerk in the P.O. Savings Bank •• i.-i-o an used went lo draw money. Counsel explained that accused had been on a drinking Lout. Ihe .Magistrate remoulded him in custody, remarking he was still suffering from drink effects. SENTENCE] FOR INTIMIDATION'. HAMILTON. March I.

An elderly man. John George .Henry Blanc, a farmer near Tatimariimii. received a sentence of 0 mouths in the Supreme Court to-day for discharging a firearm with intent to intimidate a neighbour. PUBLICANS FINED. WELLINGTON. March 4. Five publicans, who bottled other liquor in bottles from which the original labels had not been removed, were fined £3O each by Mr Page. S,M , to-dav. A sixth. Kelleher of the Albert Hotel, previously convicted oi a similar offence was fined £4O. The five were Frobisher (.Albion flutel). Bourn Hotel). Kennedy <Te Aro Hotel). At■veod (Railway Hotel. Lower Ilutt) and Meagher (Hellene Hotel. Lower Ilutt). When Afr R.irry for the accused, said there was no suggestion that the liquor had been tampered wilh. Mr Marassey said it was all of inferior quality.