DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

EIRE OUTBREAK. WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. An outbreak of lire was discovered fortunately in the early stages, in the old Government House wooden structure, now reserved as a portion of Parliament Buildings. A messenger who visited the room on the top storey, used by .Mr Lysniu; (member for Gisborne), found the table alight, and a mass of correspondence in llames. He immediately turned on the hose and by the time assistance came, the fire was subdued. A heavy gale was bloving, and had the lire develolKnl. there would have been serious risk to the whole building.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. CIIR ISTCH CITCH. Nov. 28. When John L. Bennett returned from a day’s outing yesterday, he found that a thief had entered his house, broken and robbed the children’s money boxes and taken the keys of his cycle shop in Cashel Street. Later it was found that the shop had been ransacked and all the money in the till, about 08, taken, and the safe opened and searched. The keys were found this morning in the alleyway beside the shop. Both robberies occurred in daylight.

DOCTOR FINED £SO. WELLINGTON. Nov. 28. Intoxication while in charge of a motor ear in a Wellington Street oil Saturday night, was admitted by Joseph Patrick Hennessey, medical practitioner, aged 47, who appeared before Air J. II Salmon in the .Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. Hennessey’s ear collided with a tram ear. 'The police stated that Tic had been convicted of a similar offence at Auckland on September 12th. 1925, when lie was fined £25. Counsel for defendant said his :lienl eon traded malaria and should not have taken liquor. He was not feeling well and had taken a large lose of quinine and two or three stiff whiskies.

Dr Hennessey was fined £SO and •osls and his license was suspended null April Ist. 1930. For being intoxicated while driving i ear Charles Edward Bell, liv trade a inker, aged 17. was lined £2O.

HAWKER’S SUICIDE. GISBORNE, Nov. 28. Shortly after five o’clock this after* loon, the body of a mail named Bon Irievex, aged about 55 years, was ound hanging in a hack room in a mall wliare at Ngatapa. Deceased was a well-known hawker if drapery, and lived by himself. From ippoarance. it is considered the death w-curred about a week ago.

JOCKEY KILLED. AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. A racecourse accident resulted in tho death of Jockey It. 11. Reilly, during the running of the Pnkino Handicap (five furlongs) at 'Takapima to-day. Reilly was riding Ncnzl Scholium’s two-vear-old filly. White AYings, and by some means was unseated from liis mount when the field had covered about three furlongs. What actually happened is not definitely known although it is believed Reilly was thrown against the course rails. \i the time. White Wings was running about seventh or eighth behind the leading bunch. She appeared to lie getting a clean run and did not fall herself. Reilly was killed instantly. His neck was broken and he also sustained severe injuries to his face and head. The judical oemmittee of the 'Takapuna Jockey dull will hold an inquiry into the accident to-morrow afternoon. BOWLER’S SUDDEN DEATH. NELSON. Nov. 28. ’The death occurred .suddenly at the Nelson howling green this afternoon, during play, of an elderly howler. Mr IT. 0. Jack a. Deceased was well known in howling circles in New Zealand. double fatality on railway WORKS. DUNEDIN. Nov. 28. A Masting accident which resulted in the deaths of two men, named Andrew Kydd and William llopwond, oeeurred at the Railway duplication works near Ravensbourne at I.2ft p.m. today. The accident was due to a premature explosion.

Kydd, who was a married man. aged about 59 years, with a grown-up family, resided at Sawyer’s Bay, and was employed by the Railway Department as a casual quarry mail. He was killed outright. ITopwood, who received serious injuries to his head and face, was taken to the hospital where ho died at 7.30. Ilopwood was a ganger employed by the Railway Department, aged about 46, whose wife lives at Riverton. An inquest will he held.

A CORRECTION. WELLINGTON. Nov. 29. lion. W. Noswcrthy (Postmaster General) says the statement in the cable from Canberra that Canada had to disregard all communications from New Zealand and Australia in regard to the Pacific Cable Board is incorrect. As far as New Zealand is concerned, the relations between the Canadian and New Zealand Government in regard to the hoard are most cordial, and the statement that communications from this country had been disregarded. must have been made under a misapprehension.

i FOUND SHOT. CARTERTON, Nov. 29. Edwin James, aged 70, a well-known farmer at Parkvale, was found dead last night shot in the head, with a pea rifle. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was having tea, when through the electric light failing, the whole family had to assist in completing the milking. A younger daughter returning to the house about 8 o’clock founa the father sitting in an arm chair in the front room with a pea rifle between his knees, quite dead. He leaves a widow and family of nine, mostly grown-up.

GALE IN WELLINGTON. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE. WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. .V southerly gale raged last night with heavy rain this morning. The railway line on the harbour was partly washed out and trains were blocked for some time. Shipping was interfered with and telegraph lines interrupted. A motor lorry was blown over on Queen’s Drive. Much damage was done to the gardens. This blow is worse than any last winter and is in keeping with the weather all this month, which has..bet n far more like winter than spring. The rainfall is nearly double the average.