DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1927, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

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.MOTOR CYCLK RECORD. CHRISTCHURCH. April 20. At the motor cycling races on Saturday H. .Maugham riding a 7-0 Harley Davidson broke the previous beach record of OS miles by doing just over 110 mites an hour in the Hying mile. LEG BROKEN. CHRISTCHURCH, April 20. Brought in by ambulance from West (Melton. William Hunt, aged 21. arrived at Christchurch hospital yesterday with his leg broken below the knee. Hunt who lives at Gleimty was riding a motor cycle ami was knocked down by a ear. TRAIN ENDANGERED. WELLINGTON, April 23. Pointing out the serious nature of j the (lifenee and the fact that the train | might have been completely derailed | with consequent loss of life, Mr J. IT-1 Salmon. S.M.. severely admonished and ; discharged a hoy, aged 12, who appeared before him in the Children’s] Court to-day, charged wth obstructing a train at Johnsottville, by placing a stone on the line. The evidence showed that the hoy, while playing with two younger children who were placing stones on the Inc. brushed aside the stones and put ~ fjdrv large piece of rock on the track. When the I’ackakariki train, travelling at 25 ni.p.h., reached the spot, the driver saw the stone too late to pull up, and the two front bogey wheels were derailed, damaging the track for some distance. The Magistrate dealt leniently with the hov on account ol Ins youth, the father undertaking to keep him under strict supervision.

BODIES RECOVERED. AUCKLAND. April 25. The bodies of Mrs Doris Longuet, Miss Amy Frankland, and Mr Haymood Mathie.-on. tic victims of the drowning accident near Rangitoto Island on Sunday. April 17th. wore recovered nil I lie Island on Sunday. A RE-11 FAIUNG. WELLINGTON. April 23. An application for the re-hearing of an assault cti.-e in which a labourer, John Joseph Sander, was sentenced on Wednesday to two months’ imprisonim tit for assaulting Henry Norman Hausen, was granted to-day by Mr Salmon on the ground that a witness was available to prove that there had been '' provocation. The case is set down for Tuesday.

A NELSON TRAGEDY. NELSON. April ‘-'O. The sudden, death occurred of Joint William V. Claridge. aged 55. an old resident of Richmond, in unusual circumstances. Deceased was in his inotot launch off Saxon’s Island, when he must have had a seizure. The launch was seen from shore steering an erratic (•nurse, and eventually ran ngiouml on a mudbank with the engine >till running. Those attracted by the launch's movements found Claridge dead. The verdict was heart failure. AUCKLAND BURGLARY. AUCKLAND, April 26. Burglars continue their activities ill Auckland. The shop of R. Jaffo, tailor. Queen St. was entered during the week-end and clothes valued at £125 were stolen. Entry was gained through walking along the roof of the premises at. the hack of the shop and breaking a window of the workroom.

OLD LANDMARK DESTROYED. DUNEDIN, April 26. An old landmark known ns Defem Buttery at St. Clair, was gutted by fire early this morning. The firemen experienced groat difficulty in the task set them to extinguish the blaze, as they had to work in terrific heat and thick smoke in the confined .space of the ammunition chamber and tunnel under the hill. The fire had a strong hold when tin brigade arrived and it was at once seen that tlie old building which was lined with heavy timber was doomed. A shed containing small arms and ammunition alongside the battery was not damaged, but there was always present the danger of an explosion through flying sparks setting the building alight. PRIZED GALLIPOLI RELIC. ELTHAIM, April 26. Prior to the Twenty-Ninth Division’. Anz.ac Day service at Holv Trinity Church, Eltliam, a modest little man, named Smith, entered carrying a tisti basket, from which he took out a ship’s bell, which he placed at the foot of the altar of a side chapel for inspection hv the congregation. '1 he bell formerly belonged to the transport “River Clyde,” which carried the troops for the landing on Gallipoli. Smith was then coxswain on the “River Clyde.” He has now left the Legion dull. He Has had £750 offered for the “River Clyde’s” bell, hut refuses to sell at any price.