DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(iiy Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

ALLEGED THEFT. DUNEDIN, Oct. 12. At the Police Court, a man whose name meantime was suppressed, was remanded to Invercargill on bail on a. charge of stealing £129 9s sd, the property of Bind' Harbour Board. The police stated accused had held a responsible position in a shipping company. Mr Hanlon, for the accused, said he denied dishonesty though the accounts might not lie in order. EARLY SETTLER’S DEATH. GISBORNE, Oct. 12. Obituary.—William Parker, aged 74, one of the earliest settlers in this district, his father having settled here in 1864. The family had to flee from the homestead at the time of the massacre of 1868. CROSSING SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12. Still another crossing smash occurred in Christchurch this morning, when a motor truck driven by P. E. Burgess, a coal merchant, was struck by an express train at Papanui crossing and completely wrecked. Burgess jumped at the last second and miraculously: escaped death, receiving only a slight gash on the head.

BOY KILLED. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. A boy, aged seven, the son of Ivan G. Wilson, fell from a cream cart at Matakana, which passed over him and death was instantaneous. The jury found no blame on the driver.

APPRENTICES BILL. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. Representatives of Auckland Trades Unions unanimously condemned the proposal of the Apprenticeship Bill to abolish the district quota of apprentices in individual industries. INQUEST VERDICT. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12. At the inquest on Lionel Vivian C’onierford, formerly secretary of M aid’s brewery, a verdict was returned of suicide by drowning. The police said they bad been searching for Comerford since September 29th, as there was a warrant for bis arrest for the theft oi C3OO from his employers. POISONING CASE. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12. in reference to the Lin wood poisoning case Dr Orchard says: “Personally T think it a deliberate attempt at infanticide by some person—but that is only a surmise. It was apparently some irritant poison such as salts of mercury, for the mouths of the hoys became badly blistered and burnt. Each boy was pretty bad and we are being very careful to make a thorough examination of the contents of their stomachs.

TRUCKS DERAILED. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. About four o’clock this morning three railway trucks on a goods train from Frankton to Auckland, left the rails near Otahuhu. Two of the trucks fully loaded with clieese, capsized. the third remaining partly upright. One truck had been off the line for fully six miles. The line was quickly cleared, ' there being practically no delay to traffic