DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1928, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) A FATAL ILLNESS. NAPIER, Jan. 4. A returned soldier, John Albert De Molevns, aged 49. died five minutes! after being admitted to the hospital

to-day. He lived with a mate in tho country and was ordered to the hospital, on the latter a doctor. His illness extended only from yesterday but ended fatally as stated. PASSENGERS BY MARAMA. AUCKLAND, Jan. 3. The Union Steam Ship Company’s vessel Manama, arrived from Sydney this morning a full ship, and carrying many important Australian and English visitors who will tour the Dominion. One of the most charming was Miss Elaine do Chair, daughter of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair. Governor of New South Wales. This is her first visit to the Dominion, and she hopes to see as much of the country as possible. One of the first to greet her this morning was her brother. Lieutenant do Chair, of H.M.S. Laburnum.

Dame Clarrissn Guthrie Reid, D.8.E., was honoured for her war work. She is President of Workers’ Committees and hon. secretary for the Anglo-South America Central Depot and Club.

His Honour Mr Justice Davidson, of the Supreme Court Bench of New South Wales, has the distinction of being the Judge who is still single-. He is a young man still, and was one of tho youngest to be appointed to the Supreme Court Bench of Australia. He will Spend a holiday at Rotorua, and Mount Cook.

On holiday, after the Christmas rush. Mr Justly Rawlings, C.8.E., general manager of Anthony Hordern and Sons, Ltd., of Sydney, has come to Now Zealand for a. rest. Others on the Mamma were: Messrs H. E. Hall, a Manchester business man, H. J. Hammond, K.C.. of Sydney, and W. S. Cainbo, of Sydney, a ileep-sea fisherman.

MAN KILLED. PALMERSTON N.. Jan. 3. The relict' Wanganui express struck a motor van at 11.55 this morning on the Tiongburn-Rongotea level crossing, the driver of the motor van, Andrew Guthrie, being killed instantly. The body was brought into town by the train. FATALLY INJURED. DANNEVIRKE, Jan. 3. Mrs Mary Bloor, a widow, sixty-five, died at the hospital last night as tho result of injuries received in an accident yesterday. She was driving a gig with her daughter, Mrs Hill, when the horse, in turning a bend in the Raumati Road took fright at a stationary motor-car and overturned the vehicle down an embankment. Mrs Hill esen-pod with a few (Scratches.

GOAL BREAKER. SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. Sentenced in 1924 at Wellington to two years’ imprisonment, for breaking and entering, ten charges, Victor Hugo Greaves, alias Terence O’Connor, 30, four months later broke prison at Wi T’nko, and went to Australia, where ho was imprisoned to six charges of stealing from dwellings, and at the expiry of the sentences placed on board the Maunganui and returned to Wellington. He appeared to-day on a charge of breaking prison, and being an incorrigible rogue, and got six months’ imprls-. omnent, to be served at the end of the term to which be was originally sentenced.

LICENSEE ASSAULTED. WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. The fact that he had too many drinks yesterday was the reason given by Oscar Edward Solviu, master mariner. for knocking down Thomas Coltman, proprietor of (he Grand Hotel. It was stated in court that when Solviu took no notice of a porter who went to warn him that he bad little time to catch the boat, Coltman liimself went to Solvin’s room with the inform,ition. Solviu knocked him down and stood over him in a threatening attitude. Coltman had to obtain medical attention. JI is suit also was damaged. Solviu was fined L‘3, half to go to C'oltmau. and to pay L'3 3s medical expenses.

LEAP FROM RAILWAY BRIDGE. HAMILTON. Jan. 4. In the view of a number of passersby, but before anyone realised his intention, an unknown middle-aged man climbed over the handrails of the Hamilton railway bridge at 12.45 p.m., and crossing the sleepers, flung himself 80 feet into the murky Waikato River below. To the horror of those who witnessed his leap into eternity, he rose to the surface in a huddled posture, flung up bis arms, and disappeared. None of the passers-by took enough notice to identify him, except that lie was tall, clean-shaven, and wearing a blue suit, and felt lint.

Three persons previously have chosen the scene of the tragedy as a means of ending their existence, and only a few months ago, a young man, with suicidal intent, in some way was saved from self destruction bv the pleading cry of a young girl. Dragging operations are in progress, but the body lias not yet been recovered.

LURRY SMASHED OX RAILWAY. WELLINGTON, Jan' 4. A motor lorry laden with fruit was run into at the crossing at Khandallnh by the Fields express to-day. The driver and a boy escaped uninjured, but the lorry was badly smashed up. Another yard and it would have got over.

.MOTOR. CYCLIST’S FATAL INJURY. WANGANUI, Jan. 4. Alfred Joseph Seddon Brown, aged 21, died in the hospital to-night from concussion and a fractured skull. Deceased s injuries were the result of a Fall from a motor cycle, which skidded in lose metal on Sunday morning. FINE FOREST WALK. WESTPORT, Jan. 4. R. il. Haigh ( Auckland), E. C. Terries, 11. Beattie, and J. R. Maloney ! (Christchurch), who tramped through from Bainham, in the Collingwooo country, to Karamon, and from there came on to Westport, described the! track as the finest forest walk in the: Dominion. Indeed, one of the party j enthusiastically spoke of it as one ofi the world’s greatest forest walks. For! variety of scenery it surpassed the i Milford Track. The scenery of the ' latter is of one type, whereas that on ' this route is richly varied in bush, mountain and river; and there is also a great variety of plant life on the mountain. The variety of ferns, stated i

Air ITaigh, was beyond compare. Na. < tive birds of every kind also abound, j Nor had they seen a beach as a pleas-; tire resort to compare with that of j Henphey. I . The trampers found excellent accom- j modation at the Henphey, in a hut ] with five hunks, erected by the Buller ; County Council, but suggested that i two other huts should be erected, as those en route were rather far apart. They spoke highly of the data supplied to them at the outset of the trip t by Air Bayfield, head of the Tourist i Otfk'O, Christchurch, i i