DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

»V TEMiC-HAI'II —PRESS ASSN., COI-YillGUl A CAR AOCIDF.NT. WANG AN Cl. dune 2b. Horace Alabaster, a milk vendor, was seriously injured this morning through bis car going over a bank HI to SO feet on Diirio llili 1 . The ear is a complete wreck. Id is soil, who was driving with him at the time, was thrown out half way down the bank and is uninjured.

MAORI KILLFI). WANGANUI, dune 2b

The police received advice that a Maori .aged 20 years, was killed at Waikiki. up the river, yesterday througli being kicked by a horse. As far as can be ascertained lie was putting the horse llirough a gale when il lashed out and kicked him on the chest, lie died instantly, presumably from rupture of the heart.

HULL OF WAN AKA SUNK. AUCKLAND, dune 2(5. The hull of the old steamer \\ anakn was towed by a tug to Ihe east side of the Great Barrier Island, near where Lhe steamer Wiltshire was wrecked, and was sunk with explosives.

ana was souk who c.xpio.sn vs. RESTAUR ANT RAIDED. AUCKLAND. June 27. j The po'liee raided a Grey Street res-j taurant- on Sunday night and arrested] sixty-five Chinese on a charge of. gambling. The prciuives were o' | rounded by ron-tabie.x and detectives, no resistance was offered, and the prisoners were conveyed to the police station in motor ears. ! FOUND MCAI>. I AUCKLAND, June 27. j The body of James Alexander Camp-] hell, aged 3b, was discovered in his ' dentist surgery by a woman who had gone to clean the premises. He was] in an armchair with the gas turned on. j A CAR ACCIDENT. CM R LSTC’H URCH, June 27. As the result of a motor-ear collision at Southbrook on Saturday evening, Henry Shepherd, a farmer, single, aged bO, is an inmate of Christchurch Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg, and a young man

A CAR ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, June 27. As the result of a motor-car collision at Southbrook on Saturday evening, Henry Shepherd, a farmer, single, aged 50, is an inmate of Christchurch Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left log, and a young man named Charles Perceval Griffeu, a traveller for Henry Berry and Co., was arrested for alleged intoxication while in charge of a motor-ear. 'Hie circumstance of the accident were that Shepherd drove up to Southbrook Post Office to collect bis mail. He stepped outside to the front of bis car and was struck by a ear driven by Griffon coming from the direction of Rangiora.

LADY CAAIPBELL DEAD. CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. The death occurred on Saturday at ( lieviot Hills, of Sara, Lady Campbell, aged 78 years. The late Lady Camp bell was second daughter of the Tate Hon. William Robinson, the former owner of the celebrated Cheviot estate and in 1878 married Sir Charles Ralph Campbell, eleventh baronet of Atichinbreck.

COMETS SEEN. It A AVER A, June 27. J. Al. Townsend, Director of Ifnwera Astronomical Society, picked up a further comet named after the discoverer, \\\ F. Gale, of Sydney, on Saturday at II p.m.. declination .'id degrees. 1(5 minutes south right ascension, 22 hours 7 minutes, increasing niglily fi minutes, right ascension. Pons Winnocko is now visible to the naked eye. near Aquarius. Townsend was the first to pick up both.

An astronomical Writer states:— A comet visible to the naked eye is not a frequent occurrence, but it seems probable that we are to he treated to such a spectacle at the beginning of July, if not a little earlier. About the end of June the comet l’ons-AViunecke will he only about four million miles from the earth, and should he visible without the aid of a telescope. It will then be probably in the constellation of Aquarius and at no great distance from the bright star Altair (in the constellation of Aquii'a, the Eagle).