DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—l’cr Press Association.)

1 STOVE EXPLOSION. NEW PLY.MOUTII. Aug. 2'.. Another explosion in ;i stove to-day 1 startled tlio household of Mr Raw. ] lands, in Currie Street. New Plymouth, . and strewed debris about the house. , A voting daughter of the house suffered shock and fainted, but soon recovered. .Mrs liou lands stated she afterwards I nnu mbered when putting a shovelful of coal on the fire she noticed what looked like a narrow piece of rubber in the coal, lie fore and alter the explosion there was a stroii”; smell as of rubber in the house. It is understood that the coal came from Waikato, but from which mine is not known. MAORI INJURED. WHAKATAXE. Aug. 20. A rather serious accident occurred in a white pine bush durin.tr the Mining of the To Keoti Trail picture, resulting iu Pani Roia. a young rougliriding film actor being admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition through being thrown from a horse which fell on him. With thirty other riders I’aoi was negotiating a log strewn piece of country when he collided with two other horsemen. All three were thrown, lnit- the others escaped with minor injuries. The accident was probably the result of the natives taking a risk to outdo American rough riders. PR KM ISES ENTERED. CHRISTUM nit'll. Aug. 2d. -Malcolm Nathaniel lioyd, said to have come from Waimatc, was charged today for attempting to enter a premises i» Manchester Street last evening. Tie was remanded till September Sth. The police urged that hail should he simstantial and it was fixed at. C2nn. PROBATION' (MtAXTKI). WANG AX IT. Aug. 2d. Kiihv Stuart, of Ohakune was admitted to it year’s probation at the Supreme Court for falsely stating she posted a letter containing £2 l ls to a Palmerston North resident, in payment for some fowls. She was ordered to pay eosls £7 3s. SHOOTING A BULLOCK. WANGANUI, Aug. 20. Thomas lleurv Gardner and Thomas Gardner Gordon, who shot a bullock of Fred Nielioll, of Rangatau. skinned and divided the meat, were lined £7> each and ordered to nay costs £1 12s fid. They had also paid the owner £l2 tor the ludloik. Thev were nut shooting wild pigeons a! the time and Gordon shot the bullock out of impulse. SCHOOL RESIDENCE BURNT. «. OTAKI. Aug. 2(i. The school residence at Waikanac with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved, and the origin is a mystery. PiURAYOOD MURDER REM AND. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 20. Charles Wm. Boakes again' appeared to-day charged with the murder o! Kllen Gwendoline Isabel Scarlf at Bunvood on .June lo and was remandcd till Tuesday when the ease lor the prosecution will he gone on with. PENALTY FOR CAR STEM.INC. napier. Aug. 2;;. The North Island Motor Union decided a.t the annual meeting to-day to ni|Uest the Government, to make the iinauthorised ns' 1 ot a ear the subjeet of a charge ol Cult, with •• ten of imprisonment, without the option. MATERNITY HOME. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 20. Although no death occurred in a private maternity home that was recently closed by the Fubi'ic Health Department for a week, one ol the patients that were removed died in ( liristcliurch Hospital and the iile of another was saved only by blood transfusion.

COMPENSATION CL AI M. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug, 23

A lump of coal tailing from a basket while the AYiiiteinata was being unloaded at Lyttelton on July 29th, 1920, struck a labourer, Ellis Barrnelougli. It injured bis back and fractured a rib and lie has been unable to do any work since. The Union Steamship Company, owner of -the vessel, paid him compensation up to March litli last, hut has refused to pay any more.

Before the Aribtrntion Court to-day Barraci’.mgh claimed further compensation. The Judge said neurasthenia was a real disease, but was a mental, not a physical one. Barrnelougli suffered pain at the. time of the accident. He had no actual pain now, but his nerves continued causin'; telegraphic messages from the body to the brain. Ihe .Judge advised him to get out of his mind that lie had any physical trouble. The Court awarded £122 compensation as for wages in 4.V months.