DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

CRUISER’S MOVEMENTS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 11. Tho cruiser Dunedin is at short notice leaving Akaroa and proceeding to Auckland. This has given rise to surmises that she is on her way to Samoa, but Ministers are non-committal.

FOUND HANGED. HASTINGS, Oct. 11. Yesterday afternoon, Albert Edward Tnppenden, a farm hand at R. Harding’s Raukawa station, single, aged 50, was found dead hanging from'a rafter in the engine-room. Deceased, who has been employed at the station for the last 15 years, never displayed suicidal tendencies. The sum of £52 and his Post Office Savings Bank book were found on bis body.

OILFIELDS REPORT. GISBORNE. Oct. 11. Taranaki Oilfields report at Waiwapu No. 2 well is down to a depth of 2,300 leet in shale ; 8) inch diameter easing to 2,205 feet. Gisborne No. 1 well no drilling. The progress of 15) inch diameter casing to 360 feet and 12) inch diameter casing to 635 feet. A THEFT. GISBORNE, Oct. 11. A man, rough looking and unshaven, entered a cafe on Gladstone road early last evening and gave an order to the waitress. While the girl was getting tlie order filled, the man rifled tho cash register taking £7 in notes and dashed out into the street. The proprietor and a customer made chase but the thief got away.

CHATHAM ISLAND FRACAS. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 11. The “Star’s” Chatham Island correspondent reports that a fracas occurred recently at Big Bush, one of the Maori settlements on the island, in which two natives were severely gashed with an axe, that one had taken while in a state of intoxication to “settle an argument.” On the arrival of a constable the quarrelsome b*n o was found bound hand and foot. Medical treatment had to be given one man and several stitches were inserted in two deep wounds on bis thigh.

BROKEN LEG. GISBORNE, Oct. 11. An agonising two hours was spent on V barernta Hill this morning by George Burton, of Wellington, who fell from a motor cycle which fell across his leg breaking it. There was no traffic oil the road at the time and he lav there till a service car came along and brought him to the hospital. AUSTRALIAN BAND TOUR. AUCKLAND, Oct. j]. The Australian Commonwealth Band members are through passengers to Sydney by the Aornngi. They were forced by the hostility of the American Federation of Musicians to cancel contracts worth 20.000 dollars and were refused permission to play in tho United States in spite of the fact that Conductor Baric offered to make eieiy one of the thirty band’.s members a unionists, by paying an entrance fee of twenty-five dollars each. Tins, despite the fact that there are two America bands touring Australia by special permission, only a few United States towns were played in.

CAR THEFT. AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. Raymond Strong pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge of illegally converting a motor can valued at £250 to his own use. He was given tho maximum sentence of three months imprisonment. Strong admitted ho took the ear and drove himself and three other men to a party. BODY FOUND. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 11. The body was found in the Waimakiriri to-day of Lionel Comerford, formerly accountant to Wright’s Browcry. He was married, aged 40 years and had been missing for over a week.

APPEAL ■ COURT. WELLINGTON. Oct. 11. Continuing his argument in the case, Mr Myers said they did not rely on the Constitution Act. All the powers New Zealand required were in the Imperial Treaty of Peace, 1910. It gave the King authority to make orders-in-Council such as that delegating his authority to New Zealand. This Act was intended to apply to Great Britain and empower its Dominion to carry the peace treaty into effect. South Africa took this view, ilt was immaterial whether the King or New Zealand was the mandatory power. Tho Leaguo of Nations forward New Zealand as a separate nation and the New Zealand Government reports directly to the League. He quoted tho minutes of the League to prove this.

AN ABATTOIR TROUBLE. BLENHEIM, Oct. 11. The sequel to a dispute between local master butchers and the Borough Council in regard to the ownership of sheep runners taken from animals killed at the municipal abattoirs was recently the subject of a Supreme Court action in Wellington, in which the verdict went to the Council. It is stated a party of butchers yesterday raided the abattoirs, and despite warnings by the manager removed runners. As the upshot of this evenl, an information has been laid against J. J. O’Halloran charging him with alleged theft of runners. O’Halloran is a- local butcher and also member of the Borough Council and of tho Abattoirs Committee. It iis understood the question of prosecuting the other butchers concerned iin the incident will depend on the result of the action against O’Halloran. A man, wno was employed by the butchers to remove the runners from the abattoirs is being charged with trespass.

ATTEMPT TO POISON. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 11. It has been reported to the police that an attempt was made to poison two small boys who live in Stevens Street, Linwood, last Wednesday. One boy, aged five, is still in the hospital seriously ill. The other, 3 years, has recovered. Their story ,is that while playing in the street a strange man gave them lollies in a paper bag. 'After eating these they became ill,' showing symptoms of poisoning. The police are investigating.