DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

PICTURE FILM BURNT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17

Four thousand feet of film wore destroyed by fire during a session'at tho Royal Theatre, Kingsland, last night. The operator, A. Trail, was slightly burned when the film hurst into flames. Mount Albert Brigade arrived in time to prevent damage to the operator’s box and apparatus, Trail having removed the film from the projector. There was very little excitement, the audience leaving the Tfieatre quietly before tho Brigade arrived.

MAIZE GROWERS PROTEST. GISBORNE, Sept. 1/. Maize growers are sending a deputation to Wellington to protest against a reduction of duty on maize which is claimed to he a. very serious matters to this district, as farmers will ho unable to compete with South African maize. MONKEY IN HOSPITAL. AUCKLAND, Sept. 16. All the adjuncts of modern surgery, the equipment of an X-ray laboratory, and the skill of three doctors were exorcised in the Auckland Hospital on Thursday for the alleviation of the suffering of a diminutive monkey which had sustained a fracture of a. leg in the course of its frolics at Zoological Park. The animal is now back in its cage convalescent and as comfortable as one of the Simian family could be with a third of its body encased in plaster. The injured monkey is of the South American spider species and it has been kept in a small cage for somo time. When it was noticed that tho monkey was moving with pain and dragging tho limb, the curator applied splints. Hearing of the animal’s misfortune a specialist attached to the staff of tho hospital, who has taken an interest in prescribing for animals at tho Zoo, offered to- invoke the science which would ho employed in the case of human being similarly injured. Tho monkey was admitted to the Auckland Hospital and an X-ray examination disclosed +hnt. fh" limb was broken below the knee. A whiff of anaesthetic was administered and with three doctors standing by tho leg was set in plaster. As the 'monkey is young and docile there is every prospect that tho injury will heal completely within a few weeks.

THEFT CHARGE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. Thomas Vining Gallagaher, 22, was charged at the Police Court with stealing £8 from his employers, the Mercantile and General 1 Insurance Company. The police stated there were other charges pending. The defalcations would total £IOO. Accused was remanded on'bail oi £2OO.

HORSE TREATED NEGLIGENTLY. AUCKLAND, Sept, 10. Drunk with tho elation that victory brings, Beau Cavalier probably has no thought for his poor relations in Auckland. but one mare now dead would have been glad if blood bonds with the great, could have brought a good feed of hay and oats her way. The sad tale was told in the Police Court to-day. This inure, suffering from mud fever and rheumatic deposit in the hock, lived for months in a. hare paddock, unsheltered, during rigorous winter weather. Meanwhile another member of tho family was 'hurdling liis way to affluence.

James Huntly Beeson, owner of tho mare, was charged with smelly illtreating her. Pearl Dawson, veterinary surgeon, said that she found the mare in poor condition —nothing more than a bundle of hones, and unable to put ono foot on the ground.

Henry Ferguson, inspector for tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that the mare had been in tho paddock for two months. There was little grass, and it had received no attention from the owner. The horse was related to Beau Cavalier, and had now been destroyed. Tho Magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt) held that the. animal had been treated negligently, and ho fined the defendant £5 and ordered him to pay £5 Ifis costs.