DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[jsy telegraph—reii press association.] CHINAMAN CHARGED. NELSON, March 22. At the Magistrate’s Court, Wong Ah '•hong, a Chinaman, was charged with breaking, entering and theft of LUO in Dunedin on the 20tli January. lie was remanded to Dunedin on 25th March.

CONFISCATED NATIVE LANDS. OPOTIKI. March 22.

|.i is Honour. Sir Win. Sim. and eight, members of the Confiscated Native Lands Commission will open its proceedings to-morrow, and the-e will probiihlv last till the end of the wee!:.

I DENT! FI ED. ROTOR I’A. March 23. The victim killed on the railway at Koutu has been identified by means ol finger prints as William James George, occupation porter, aged 58, a native o! Eng la ud. SEEKS REFUGE IN GAOL. WELLINGTON. March 22. Arthur George McGuinness, seaman, 53. charged witfi wilfully damaging a. plateglass window worth £lO, the property of Herbert John Harrop, told Mr Page, SAL. that la* did it deliberately to get something to cat, saying lie could not get work. New Zeai'and was the first country in which lie had starved. The police said the accused hail not attempted to take any jewellery from the window. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. This disappointd accused who seemed to want more. CREW FIXED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. The whole of the stokehold crow of the liner Piako spent last night in the Lyttelton lock-up having boon arrested on a charge of receiving stolen goods, shortly before the vessel' was due to sail for Wellington yesterday alter-

noou. At Court to-day twenty-one mm were charged with receiving stolon goods of a value of CIO. the property of Lyttelton Harbour Hoard. All were found guilty and 19 were fined £2 and two fined Cl, having been previously convicted. Cheese and butter bad been found in their lockers. THEFT OF DAIRY PRODUCE. CHRISTCHURCH. March 22. During the week-end. the Harbour Board’s cool store at Lyttelton was broken into and a quantity of butter and cheese was stolen. To-day the Lyttelton police arrested twenty-one members of the stokehold crew of the Piako. and they will he charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow with having received butter and cheese, knowing it to have been stolen. YACHT LOST. AUCKLAND, March 23. Three yachtsmen. Rowson, Morgan and Lowe, of Whangniei had their motor boat cast on a shelf of rocks and scrambled ashore with a lev- pm\ isions. abandoning the boat as lost. Imo\ spent the bitterly cold night on the cliffs. The distress signals were seen by Zane Grey from his yacht who rescued the party and towed the yacht badly damaged to Port Fitzroy. A LEGATEE. AUCKLAND. March 23. Alfred Hooper, who inherited £40,000 from the estate of his deceased uncle, with prospects of another legacy of £13.000 in a few months from an estate of his grandfather, the late Charles Green-Wood, continues his customary delivery from a butcher's cart at To Papa. Asked what lie would do with the money he replied it will n >t make any difference to me. 1 shall just carry on with tlio job. There are eleven claimants to the Green-Mood’s legacy If their claims are substantiated, Hooper's share will only be one thousand. appeal court. WELLINGTON, March 23. Mr MverSiin stating the case for the plaintiff in the Southland. Dairy Coy.

and McEwan and Coy. v. Dairy Control Board, said the control was purely an ngenev one and there was nothing illegal ii it. nor was it in restraint of trade or contrary to public policy. There might lie a loophole in the Act hut if so it was intentional, and it was for the Legislature not the Court to change the Act. The Court was not justified in introducing other reasons. The only question was in the arrangement, allowed in the principle by the Act. NEW PLYMOUTH. March 23. The Directors of the Taranaki Oil Fields announced that on the rerommendation of the geological staff they have decided to drill a further well near 'Morcre. East Coast. Arrangements for the plant, etc., are in hand. A. AND B. SHOW. ROTORUA. March 23. The A. and B. Show opened this morning in fine weather and entries large. RUGBY FOOTBALL. RAH I. ATT A. March 23. I lie Bush Rugby Union resolntioned that on the occasion of the annual North-South Island fixture, the New Zealand Union institute also an annual match between minor unions of both Islands as a t uriniii raiser to the big fixture. It was complained that at present the Minor Union players never got consideration for the North Island or New Zealand teams

and a match as suggested would servi to bring their players under notice of the selectors.