DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) RAGWORT. AUSTRALIAN INSECT PARASITES. WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. Hopes of returning to- New Zealand with a valuable insect parasite which is .an enemy of ragwort are held by Dr R. .T. Tilly a rd, of the Cawthrotf Institute, who is at present visiting the Commonwealth (to confer with the Australian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on problems connected with entomology in that county at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Australia-. “Just now I ,am hot on the trial of some new ragwort insects located in Gi pi island,” he writes to Dr E. ATaisden, of the Department of Scientific and’ Industrial Research. “One is a ste.m-lxiring caterpillar of a family most peculiar to 'rMi'-L*. It eal> out ■* , centre of the young seedling and also- destroys the centre of the well-grown rosette in second year plants. It attacks the upright stem and 1.-lIL it. Plants at'.icked by this larvae almost invariably die. Provided that this species is negative to other plants of economic value, I consider that it alone would eliminate ragwort from New Zealand.’ Dr Tillvard goes on to say* that one type of insect is ,a. pink, translucent, undergrown caterpillar, which so far },c could not classify, hut probably it was a pyraust-id. This also did a lot of damage. Tho first moth had tioen bred out and be proposed to take it to Gisborne

FATAL CAR ACCIDENT

AUCKLAND, Nov. 1

Edward Henry Sievcwright, aged 60 years, was knocked down by a motor car in Campbell Road, Royal Oak. this afternoon, sustaining a fracture of the skull. He died in the Auckland Hospital an hour later.

FALL FROM BALCONY. AUCKLAND, Nov. 4

John Paterson, aged 38, widower, described as a labourer, fell from a balcony at 10 Roxburgh Street-, city, where he was boarding. on *<> a concrete path. He sustained a lractured skull. His condition is serious.

MOSGIEI. woollen COY. DUNEDIN. Nov.

The Directors of Mosgud M oollen Gov recommended a dividend ol 4 per cent and a bonus of 2 per cent, making 10 per cent lor the year.

ATTKM I’TED ROBBERY. WHAKATANK, Nov. *1

A deliberate attempt to-blow open a fc-ife at the railway station at -la neat mi ooetirred some time during the night. . In the safe was £2,700 in railwaymen’s wages, hut would-he thieves were unsuccessful in obtaining the loot. They had shed too much gelignite, which tended to keep the safe locked rather than to force it open. They had effected an entrance to- the station building by means of a window. Although il was knocked about a good deal, the safe was quite intact when the discovery was made this morning that it had boon interfered with. The police are making investigations and a detective lias arrived from Gisborne. telegraphic forgery charge WELLINGTON. Nov. 4. The forging of a £lO money order telegram in the nam c of James Butt, was alleged against Leslie Marti, carpenter, 2-1. at the Magistrate’s Court to-day.

Asking for a remand the Chief Detective said that the offence took place in 1923. Three other charges, involving a total of over £IOO would also be preferred. Ward had gone to England after the alleged offences and was married there. A remand was ••ranted with hail of £2OO.

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. A man named Cyril Hodgkinson, 24, ■fff Thorndon, was driving a throe-ton lorry down Birdwood Street, Knrori, -,it four o’clock yesterday, when the steering gear gave way, and the lorry crashed into a post and rail lonce down into a gully which at that point is over 200 feet deep. Fortunately the hack wheels caught on a tree and checked the lorry in the headlong piling,, about 30 feet down The driver had a miracu-

lous escape. The lorry caught fire. The brigade was summoned, and firemen were roped and lowered to the blazing lorry which was hadlv damaged. The driver had bruises on the arms and legs and Stiffen'd from shock.

GUY FAWKES DAY MENACE. , WELLINGTONs Nov. 4. Uneasiness is prevalent regarding the Fifth of November fires and fireworks. and the police have promised that the matter will receive attention. Air Gray, of the Fire Underwriters’ Association, expresses the opinion that it is high time something was done. The letting off of crackers is a potent cam* of fires, and should he rigorously put down; also the lighting of bonfires. Apparently, the Wellington Council has no authority in the matter, the police being responsible. The time is much overdue for the unification of the by-laws of local bodies in respect to the matter of the Fifth of November fires and fireworks.

SALE OF RADIO APPARATUS. WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. The first of their kind in tho Dominion, Fear and Coy. and Harrington’s Ltd. were prosecuted to-day for failing to keep a proper record of sales of wireless equipment. The irksomeness of the law’s requirements were dismissed. The Afagistrato remarked that the ultimate object was to secure protection of revenue. Ho imposed fines of £3. Five people who erected wireless without a license were fined £2 with costs.

TWO HORSES BOLT. J PALMERSTON N., Nov. 2. The son of Mr Benton, farmer, of Milson Line, at about 5 o’clock this morning went to the New Zealand Banners’ Dairy Union factory in I‘itzlierbert Street to take away butter-milk according to contract, taking a light lorry drawn by two horses, and containing two big square iron tanks. While the youth was inside the factory the horses and vehicle disappeared. The lad sot out in a homeward direction after the missing vehicle on a bicycle, finally finding them in Church Street. The runaways had evidently sped up Fitzherhert Street, along Church Street until Princess Street was reached. The bolting horses were observed from the Police" Station, and constables were quirklv on the scene. A milkman, who tried to stop the onrush, merely succeeded in turning the horses from their course, but an electric lightingpost on the town side of Church Street was struck. The impact of the collision caused the animals to be separated. One sustained a deep, long cut in a leg, and after rising more or less untrammelled crossed Church Street, leaving behind it a trail of blood. It collapsed and within fiyc minutes hied to death.

.The other horse continued speeding along Church Street, dragging the lorry, from which the tanks had fallen. At the corner of Albert and Chureh Streets tin’s animal also came to grief, getting in some way jammed against a post or tree, though not being injured.