DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 September 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. INFERNAL .MACHINE -MYSTERY’. WELLINGTON. Sept. 8. The police now have abandoned the idea that the sender of the infernal machine through the Post- Office on Monday to .Mr D. H. J. AY. Lord, is a woman. Deter lives have been busy interviewing people in connection with the mat lev. and they aie confident that at any moment the mystery will ly solved, the number of people likely to know anythin;' about it having been reduced to four or five. Enquiries a:-,o have been made in likely quarters regarding the sale of gelignite.

ARUiI RATION COURT'. WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. The Arbitration Court to-day beard the biscuit makers and confectioners’ di • pule, affecting Gtage. Canterbury am! the Northern Industrial .Districts, and reserved its decision. STOCK ROUTE. WELLINGTON. Sept. 8. 'The u ■••■•ssity for better means of j Iran pc.rlnig stock from Marlborough to Caniorburj was stressed by «. deputation of Soui.li Island members to the Premier and Mr Williams tu-dav. The complaint is that there is only one connecting road, nmi this is greatly used by motorists. Mr Williams said he would like to look over the route to see what could he done. THAMES JUBILEE FINANCE. THAMES, Sept. 9. The final meeting of the Jubilee Committee last evening disclosed a satisfactory position. It was recognised that the iubii. ■ celebrations had been most successful, attracting people from all parts of the Dominion and several' from Australia. The balance shcei: showed receipts £175 sterling and expenses £lO9, Luting a credit balance of £3lO, which will form tlio nucleus of a fund for a children’s playground. . A BURGLAR AT '.VDRK. ' LEISURELY METHODS. , AI'UKL AND, Sept. 5. It is not vary often that :• burglar .

is observed stealing from a shop, examining liis booty with tlie aid of matches, packing it av.ay in a Lag and then escaping. The burglar who robbed tlie Huia Drapery, a small' shop conducted by Mrs E. Crawford, at 151 Eden Terrace, immediately opposite Dominion Road, shortly alter midnight on Saturday, of goods worth about £lO had a lot of luck on his side. Fifteen minutes after mid-night -Mrs Sampson, who with a child sleeps above a right-of-way leading to tlie rear of Airs Crawford’s shop, heard a sound resembling the rustle of paper. At first she did not pay much attention to the sounds, hut as they continued she opened the window and looked dov n. Not tell feet away, immediately below, was a man. He liad prised open the window of Mrs Crawlord's shop, and was stealing bolts of satin de luxe from the shelves. For a couple of minutes' Mrs Sampson watched the burglar while she made up her mint exactly what course to take to capture him. She saw him rea* h into (he shop and take some packets off the shelves. He struck a match to examine the contents of the packets. Discovering that they Were hairpins he threw them away. .Mrs Sampson was about to give tlie alarm when tlie burglar was disturbed by the stopping of a motor-ear and lie decamped with his bootv.

AUCKLAND POWER FAILS. AUCKLAND, Sept, 4. Mechanical trouble caused the high tension wire between King’s wharf :md Newmarket to burn out at 7 o’clock this morning. As a result, trams and trains in the area concerned were held up for ten minutes on one occasion, and half an hour on the other. All trains on the Aucklaiid-Xewmaiket-Otaliuhu section were delayed through the interlocking and electrical signalling apparatus not having power. Had the breakdown been more serious, the Rnii’way Department’s stand-by plant at Newmarket could have been brought into operation. Workmen were set to work repairing the break immediately, and within ten minutes the power was on again. A further fault at 7.25 caused another hold-up, which lasted half an hour. This time the trams were mostly affected. PRISONER SENTENCED. CHRJSTCIIURCH, Sept. 9. Leonard Wright for breaking into the premises of the New Zealand Farmers Co-op. at Ashburton arid stealing goods valued at '.'(>l and also for breaking into ether places was sentenced to eighteen months in the Supremo Court to-day.

MISSING CHEQUE PASSED. AUCKLAND, Sept. 9. A ten pound cheque in the missing mail hag. was cashed in nil Auckland butcher’s shop, having been tendered in payment for meat. It was marker? “not negotiable” and made out hv m Auckland firm in payment to a. Hamilton, resident. The cheque though payable to the hearer, hear.-, a forged endorsement in printed script of the Hamilton resident’s name. The mail bag was missed on Saturday afternoon and +’■„ cheque was presented in the butchers shop on Tuesday at a time when there was) a rush of customers. Beyond the tact tha a man handed it in. there is no clue to the perpetrator of the fraud.

I MAGISTRATE’S SCATHING ■ COMMENT. GISBORNE, Sept. 9. ' Scathing comment on a certain section of the Births Registration Act was passed by Air E. C. Rewoy, S.AI. this morning, when the birth certificate of an illegitimate child was admitted during the hearing of a maintenance i action. “It is a most improper and shocking tiling that tiio certificate should have the word illegitimate written across it.” He sakl: “AMiy should j a child he branded for lile. One ' would think we were living in dark ages. If that is a provision of the ! act it is high time it was amended.” i

SAAIOAN ENQUIRY. AY ELLINGTON, Sept. 9. Following correspondence between the firm Findlay, Haggard. Cousins and AYright. on behalf of Hon 0. F. Nelson and other petitioners who sought alterations to the Commission in regard to Samoa, the solicitors have notified Hon Coates that neither Nelson nor other parties to the petition will appear before the Commission to give evidence. The grounds j are that if the Commission leaves as decided, by the Tofua on Saturday, there will not be sufficient time to prepare a case. Nelson lvad asked for j a postponement of the sailing .f the C-ommissian for a month, but Justice Skcrrett notified the Premier this was not poesihle. Further, that the orde: 1 of reference is not sufficiently corn- ! prehensive for the investigations ol many of the most urgent grievances,

DEATH OF P. S. AVADDIE. WELLINGTON, Sept. 9. Obituary—P. S- Waldie, Chief Clerk of the Public Works Department, aged GO years.

CASES PILLAGED. AUCKLAND, Sept, 9. A case shipped by the Ui'imaroa at Sydney and consigned to an Auckland business firm, for which the invoice showed twenty-one frocks, some ol them valued at £8 or £9 each, were found to have been pillaged to the extent. of twelve of a value of £‘loo. There is ample proof that the frocks were not stolen on the voyage or since landed in Auckland. Four hundred watches which were missing from a case shipped to Auckland recently by another vessel. The frocks will have to lie paid for by the underwriters. INQUEST VERDICT. GREY’AIOUTH, Sept. 9.

Coroner Mildrum resumed the enquiry to-day on the death 'of ALs Toohey and verdicted that deceased, Martha Jsohel Toohey, died at the Greymotith hospital on July 7t.h from toxaemia following on an illegal operation performed upon her at Christchurch between June 12th and 21st hut there was no evidence before the Court to prove who performed the operation. FATAL ACCIDENT. GR.EYMOUTH, Sept, 9. James Laughton employed at the Harbour Board's quarry at Cobden was jammed between two trucks y astir relay, and 'fatally injured; He leaves a widow and four young children.