DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

! [by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] 1 SHOPKEEPER PROSECUTED. CHRISTCHURCH, .March 2.3. To attract business, Reginald Henry Stillwell, a mercer, exhibited iti his window an electro-plated tea. service, with an accompanying notice, viz: “Lucky set free to the winner. Every buyer receives a docket.” His 'intention was to draw a docket from all accumulated pile at some later date, and award the. tea set to the holder of a lucky number, hut the notice attracted the attention of Detective Sergeant Young. Thereupon Stillwell told him 1 rankly all about his scheme, saying that he was unaware that it was illc-

■ In the Police Court to-day, Stillwell j was charged with using his premises j lor a scheme which involved taking | part in a game of chance. I Decision was reserved. A GAAIE OF CHANCE. i WELLINGTON. Afarcli 2.3. i Conducting a game oT chance known las “Help Your Neighbour,” was adj milled by Percy Everett Joseph Shaw | iiud Robert Strong in the .Magistrate's i ( ourt to-day. ; It was stated that Detectives Aluri ray and Bayliss visited a fair ill aid | of the Artillery Queen campaign, and i Ton ud each of the defendants conductj ing a separate game, tis named, which ' was throwing darts at a cloth with numbered squares pinned to a table, for shilling pools, as wfis the usual practice. The defendants said that the Queen Committee was receiving half the takings, and. when the police interfered their receipts were not mole j than £1 to £l. IDs. j Each was tilled £lO and costs.

j TBEATAIENT OK T.B. A NATIONAL QEESTLOX. i 'i DUNEDIN, Afarcli 2b. V The unsolved problem of tuber- : eulosis ti'cament was discussed by the Hospital Board, the clLurnuui, Air , Knight, ' stating that something , was wrong when three distinct systems 1 were operating in the North Island. I There was a partially national system ! with ftljotit 70 beds in Auckland and GO in Wellington. In the South Island the old system was carried on in Nortn Canterbury and Otago, with the addition in other centres of a combination ; by boards wit]} the Government on a , pooling system. The disease was U nail ional one. but the Department always { set its face against that purely on the j score of expense. It was difficult to I credit the statement that the disease J (Ois more prevalent in the South i Island than in the North, j Air Quelch stated that in the South i Island there were three sanatoria with waiting lists, and the fact was that the ! more buildings put up the more pa- : tienis (Mine in. ! Another member drew attention to the report that there neve 70 empty beds in the Government's North Island sanatorium. He was suggesting that Otago might co-operate with Canterbury to send patients tsere. ] The discussion was dropped without 1 a resolution.

AT SOLOAION ISLANDS. AUCKLAND, March 2b. The recent massacre of six native policemen in the Solomon Islands was recalled by Dr Nortlicoto Deck, head of the South Sea Evangelical Alission at the islands, when interviewed on his arrival ; t Auckland fr< m AVelj'iiigton last evening. Dr neck did not take a very serious view of the trouble. Giving brief details of what had taken place, he said the murders occurred at Guadalcanal*, one of the largest islands in the group. A law was in force that no native should have more than two wives, and one of tiie Guadalcanal' tribe had been guilty of ignoring it. The district officer for Guadalcanal*had sent a native constable to bring- him T o Hie coast. He had resisted and it had been necessary to send a.force of seven policemen. Probably what happened then was that the policemen used their rifles and the natives retaliated by murdering the policemen. “ There is nothing to he alarmed about.” said Dr Deck. “It is merely the result of a probable misunderstanding. Tiie natives, particularly the tribe in question, are quite i'nw-abiding people. I am sure that there will he no- further trouble, and the reports that further trouble is brewing are unfounded. The whole thing was just a

stupid occurrence.” Dr Deck added that he had been over the district where the massacreoccurred, and lie had no need to carry firearms. It was there that Baron von Norbeck and six other Austrians had met a similar fate at the hands of the natives about twenty-five years ago. The district was not frequented by white men and the hones of the party had lain blenching in the sun for about twelve years, when he himself had found them.

The doctor added that he had quitted the isl’ands the day after the nows of the massacre of the policemen came through, and he was unable to say what steps had been taken to avOnge the crime and to bring the natives to hook. He thought it would he necessary for the district officer to make some move in order to maintain his prestige.

CUT HIS THROAT. DUNEDIN, March 2(3, Adam John Cowman, married, <l(3, licensee of Tda Valiev Hotel at Poolburn. was found last night in an adjoining blacksmith’s shop with his throat cut and a bloodstained razor beside him. CINEMA VICTIMS’ FUNERAL. MONTREAL, Jan. 7. Parents sobbed and prayed in the Roman Catholic parish church of the Nativity. Hochelaga, this morning when a combined funeral service was held for the 77 boys and girls who lost their lives in the panic that followed the explosion in the Lanrier Palace cinema theatre in St. Catherine’s Street East. Montreal, on Sunday. Thirty-five tiny coffins stood in rows along the aisles, the sight bringing tears to the eyes and sobs to, the voices of the dignitaries of the Church who intoned the Requiem Mass. [

No funeral service in Montreal has ever attracted a larger throng. Uniformed officers, including General Pallet, representing the GovernorGeneral. wore crepe on their sleeves as they stood beside, black-coated civic officials.

j Prominent people of all religious persuasions attended the service, which was oondlicted "by Archbishop Gautier, assisted by other eminent clergy. Outside the church, when the great bell of Notre Dame Cathedral boomed out announcing the beginning of the service, thousands of Roman Catholics knelt in the snow with heads bared. 30 HEARSES. Thirty hearses with white-caparison-ed horses carried the little coffins to the Cote tie Neiges cemetery after the service, thousands of people marching in the procession. At two o’clock another service was held especially for victims under seven years of age who had not received their first Communion. Enforcement of the Sabbath observance so 'as to prevent children from attending theatres was demanded by Archbishop Gauthier in his address.