DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(Bv Telegraph—Bor Press Association.) ELECTRIC I.OCOs;. SIX FOR CHRISTCirURCH. WELLINGTON. July 27. T'lie Railway Department lias accepted the tender of Cory. Wright and Salmon, Wellington, for the supply of six electric locomotives for use on the electrified section of the ChristchurchLyttelton line. The locomotives will he built by the English Electric Company at their Preston works. This company built the Otira electric locomotives, which are similar in appearance to those just ordered, but the new locomotives will he materially different in other respects. They embody improvements as the result of later elotrical developments and. unlike the Otira engines, which were designed for haulage on a heavy grade, will he built for high speed. The guarantee is that they will pull at forty miles per hour a full passenger train of 100 tons weight, which is equivalent to the heaviest through ex. press running to Lyttelton. They will handle goods trains up lo 000

lligb acceleration is another lent lire needed in suburban short-run irnifio. and the whole weight of the locomotive is carried on the driving wheels. Power will he taken from overhead lines. 1500 volts direct current drawn from the Lake Coleridge supply. The camshaft method of control is stated to be “fool-proof." The Railway Department will send an electrical engineering representative to England to supervise the contract.

YOUNG MAN’S ESCAPADES

APPEARANCE IN COCRT

HAWERA. .ful.v 27

"The actions of the defendant warrani medical examination as to his mental condition." said the Magistrate (Mr Barton) when the escapades of a young commercial traveller, Kenneth Victor Gibson, were related in Court this morning.

The police gave evidence that accused bought furniture in Wellington on Thursday, paying a deposit ol £3 10-s. Immediately he took the furniture to a firm of auctioneers and sold it tor £35. with which he paid £3O deposit on a see,-olid-hand car. Gibson lelt Wellington in a car on Friday, accompanied by a woman previously convicted of thelt. They spent the night at Shannon, arriving at Hawera on Saturday. The pair came under public notice on Sunday, when they tried to buy a bottle ol wim* It'oin an hotel. Eater they went to New Plymouth. in company with a young girl. Mho is at present in charge of the probation officer. Gibson bought benzine on credit at Hawera, Inglewood, and New Plymouth.

Accused was fined £2, in delimit fourteen days' imprisonment, on the charge of being on licensed premises after hours, and £l. in default seven days, for failure to produce a car driver's license. A charge of being idle and disorderly was dismissed.

POSTAL OFFICER’S APPEAL WELLINGTON. July 27. Legal papers in an action of unusual interest have just been filed in Wellington. ' These are for the Supreme Court to require tlm P -t and Telegraph Appeal Hoard to hear the appeal of a Post Office Savings Bank officer who was disciplined in connexion with the Raume case last year. The officer in question was fined and punished lor negligence in rendering possible the frauds whereby Sidney Erne Baunie and an accomplice obtained a substantial sum of money from the Savings Bank, and theft being traced in them by accident. Tlho grounds of the action are that, the fault is that of others, or ot the svstem, olio cheque which was paid in by Baume's accomplice. Smith, being accepted undated. The case will be heard at an early date. RAILWAY PORTER'S THEFT. - PALMERSTON X.. July 27. Walter James Bodle, railway porter, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on charges of theft, the Magistrate remarking that lie would not consider probation, as accused was n Government servant in a position of trust, wliich lie* ntbusetl-

AUSTRALIAN JOCKEYS ARRIVE

WELLINGTON, July 27

By the Ulimaron to-day arrived two jockeys from Australia, in M. Sullivan and E. Dawson. It is understood that both are going to employment in Hawke’s Bay. Sullivan goes under engagement to ride for the Napier train, er. W. Donovan. According to Sydney advices lie can go to scale at a little over 7 stone:

BRAN AND POLLARD PRICES. OAMABU, July 27. Owing to the low prices ruling in Australian markets. New Zealand millers have been compelled to reduce the price of bran and pollard to meet competition. Pollard has been further reduced by 10s per ton, making a total reduction of 25s and bringing the f.o.b. price to £6 15s. Bran has been reduced to Cl, bringing the price to £5 f.o.b. Thy new prices operate from to-mor-row.

NOTED HORSE DIES. new PLYMOUTH. July 28. One of New Zealand s best known

hurdle horses, Paritutu, is dead, and I |>y a strange coincidence, he outlived I his master, the late Mr Newton King, by onlv a few hours. Paritutu raced for twelve years and rested for twelve years. In 138 starts ' he gained twenty firsts, ineluding the Grand National Steeplechase in 1911. in record time. He scored twentyfive seconds, and twenty-one thirds, making fifi placings.