DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association

ARREST FOR HOUSEBREAKING A TASTER'TON, Sept. 1.

As the result- of four houses being broken into and small sums of money and other articles taken, the police to-day arrested at Woodvillo, Henry Beaumont, alias McKay, who will he charged there to-morrow with breaking. entering anil theft. The total value of the appropriations from tlie residences is not yet known. A CAR ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. A six cylinder limousine car belonging to Carter the Great was badly wrecked in an accident on a bridge over a creek at Takanini on the Great South Road at an early hour this morning. The car was found by another party of motorists king on its side on the side of the road with its lights on. The driver of Carter’s ear, named Young, was liadl.v cut about the face, and another member of Carter’s company. Fergusson, was badly shaken and bad a wound on his taco. The accident was caused by the drivers’s failure to notice a sudden curve in the load. The car struck the first and second supports on one side of the bridge. 'These concrete pillars were snapped off and shot into the stream. The two injured men are receiving attention at a surgery at Papal:lira. FOUND DEAD. .MASTERTON. Sept. 2. William Gillespie, a Commission Agent, was found dead in his office this morning where lie-slept after working late last night. HOTEL PROPERTIES. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 2. During the past few weeks several important changes in the ownership of Christchurch Hotels have taken place, the freehold of the Cafe de Paris hotel and leases of Tattcrsalls, the Foresters and Rnthorfiold hotels having been sold. It is understood that the price paid for tho freehold of Cafe de Paris was approximately £1,050 a foot. THEFT CHARGE. AUCKLAND. Sept. 3. Gordon McDonald Gordon, 30. a Commission Agent, convicted on three charges of theft and one of obtaining money by false pretences while employed selling electric radiators, was sentenced at the police court to 2 years’ probation.

YISITING AIR EX L’lf RTF. AUCKLAND, Sept. I

Group Captain Fellowes, Leader of tlie Imperial Airship Mission, flew to Hamilton to-day with Captain Findlay as pilot, in the Bristol Fighter machine from Soekburn. 'Tlie airline distance from Mangere to Hamilton is 65 miles and tlie journey there and hack, without stopping, was made in one hundred minutes. The journey was made in furtherance of a. search for a suitable site for an airship base. 'I he mission mav possibly leave for the South on Saturday.

LABOUR LAWS. WELLINGTON. September 1. A request that the Government should take into consideration the exclusion of the dairy industry from tho scope of the Industrial Couneilatioii and Arbitration Act was made to-day to the Premier and .Minister of Labour by a deputation representing 244 dairy companies.

Mr Anderson said that various points would lie taken into consideration. They would sec amendments to the Act within a week or so. It was a. difficult matter to please everybody in labour matters and the man who tried to do flint would never get anywhere. He was making representations to the Cabinet on Saturday, and the various representations made would receivc co n sidferation.

Mr Coates said he would keep the representations In mind. He was not prepared to discuss the matter, or indicate what action the Government was likely to make. POLICE COURT FINES. ASHBURTON. September 2. At the Police Court, Fleming Ross Mil'.'er was fined £25 and delicensed for the remainder of the license year for driving a car while intoxicated. James Leslie Hall, a piano tuner, was fined £5 for selling four wireless sets without a license. HOMESTEAD BURNT. CAMBRIDGE, September 2. The twelved roomed homestead ot William Yasper “Dingley Dell”, Pukekurn three miles from Cambridge was totally destroyed by fire at 1 a.m. to-day. The outbuildings, dairy, washhouse storeroom, mens room and semidetached billiard room were also destroyed. The building was of twelve rooms the home of the \ ospers lor many years and was a well-known land mark. Insurance o building £I,BOO and on contents £BOO both in tho South British.

HOCKEY. PALMERSTON N., Sept, 1. The Hockey Tourney was resumed this morning, matches resulting: Section B.—Mauawatii A. 7 v. Bush I'nion B. 0; Poverty Bay 3, v. King Country 2. TRAIN HITS CAR. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. With' the signal against him anil crossing -bolls Ringing, C. Campbell of the Dominion Motors Ltd., drove into the 11.35 train from Henderson this morning. The engine hit the front of the car smashing a wheel and damaging the bonnet. The driver was .alone in the car, and be escaped uninjured. Campbell last year fell ffixty-six feet in a. car over the Bailor Gorge, turning three somersaults, a scratch on the wrist being bis only injury, one man on that, occasion being killed. killed by explosion. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 1. B. E. Dyson, manager of .T. J. Niven Christchurch, died on the way to the hospital as a result of an explosion while trying a new burner, in an oil burning furnace. (Nobody else "as injured. A burglary. AUCKLAND. Sept. 2. A burglar climbed a narrow waterpipe to the upper story of the Tramway Deoot at Freeman’s Bay, smeaicd treacle on the window, which lie broke, and gained entrance. Tlie windows leading to the office of the tramway enipayees’ club-room and the till in the office were liotli forced open, with a iomniy. and about £3O stolen.