DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph-Per Press Association.) ('RUSHED BY POLE. WAIPI'K I’RAU, Aug. I. An accident to a Waipukurau telegraph employees while staying a pole at Te Ante al mid-day terminated Intally this afternoon. Edward Joseph Casey. .'ls, dying in Waipukurau Hospital limn being severely crushed. He was in a hole around the post when the staying wire gave way through the anchors slipping in very sodden ground. The pole had to lie jacked from (he unfortunate man. He leaves a widow and one child.

BYE-LAW OFEENCE. WELLINGTON. Aug. 3

Iwn youths pleaded guilty at the .Magistrate’s Court to a charge of distrihut i ng leaflets in a main street. Senior-Sergeant Lander said it «-.is an offence under the byc-la w s for persons to distribute leaflets in any public* place in Wellington. The defendants were employed bv an advertising firm and had boon giving out handbills in connection with an ossav competition.

Air Wnrburton, representing defendants, said, the youths had handed out the leaflets to school children on instruction from their employers. The .Magistrate remarked that the object of the bye-law was probably to prevent the streets from being littered with papers. Defendants were ordered to pay costs.

RUGBY LEAGUE'S DECISION. AUCKLAND. Aug. 3. At a special meeting uf the New Zealand Rugby League Council yesterday it was decided to play an interisland game at Auckland on Saturday. September 24tb. and seek financial assistance from Southern Leagues in assisting the South Island team.

BOXING CH A AIPIONSH IP. AUCKLAND. Aug. 3. The following team has been selected to represent Auckland at the New Zealand amateur boxing championships at Invercargill on August 18th and tilth. Flyweight, F. Pierey. (Aticklndn) : bantam, J. Sullivan (Auckland): lightweight. T. Slatery (Te Kali) : welterweight. F. Armisliaw (Amkland); cruiser-weight, A. Hogg (Rotorua); hea vvwegiht, R. McCarthy (Auckland). R. Agnuw (Auckland). The featherweight champion i- unable to make the trip and no middlewoigid lias been chosen.

AJUHGKD BANKRUPT. AUCKLAND. Aug. 3. Roderick Gordon Griffiths was formally a judged a bankrupt at the Supremo Court to-day. It was slated be owed nearly live thousand pounds and that he had absconded. Mr Mahoney. representing petitioning creditors. said the debtor had been proprietor of a private hotel. The Mansions, and he lnul run up debts making several expensive purchases which included probably the best motor launch in the harbour, motor ear and piano. The cost of the plane was £750 and £OOO was still owing oil the instrument. When pressure was applied by tlie creditors, Gordon Griffith absconded to Wellington. He could not now he traced. It was thought he hail gone to Sydney. Future ni lion of the creditors will he decided alter a meeting at the Assignee's office.

INQUEST VERDICT. KDTHAAL Aug. 3

Deceased met his death through drowning, obviously due to accidentally falling over a high clilf into the river near the end of George Street, was the verdict of the jury at the inquest to-day concerning the death of Rev. Father Alum-ice John Fitzgibbons.

A BOGUS INSPECTOR. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 3.

Possessing a certificate of authority issued by the .Bottl'd of Health to .someone else a bogus health inspector was caught in the city this morning. He collapsed when the head of a business firm called in the police, and it turned out he was a neurasthenic case and Is hospitalled.