DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. FOUND 1 DROWNED. DUNEDIN, Feb. 25. Tile Ikklv of Harry Watt Hanna, aged 1)3, was found in the Taieri River near Henley. There was nothing to indicate how he got there. fatal fall. AUCKLAND. Feb. 25. Harry' Lloyd was killed instantly at Morningside, by falling from the road into an excavation, forty feet deep. KA-NNA IN HURRICANE. AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. The steamer Knnna, which arrived to-day with guano, was at Surprise Island on February Bth. when a hurricane s*rwk the island and a considerable portion of the foreshore was washed away. The Ivanna left her berth, put to sea and returned later without damage. YOUTHFUL BAD SNATCHERS. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 25. In the ATagistrate's Court, George William Phillipson, 17, was charged with stealing a purse and contents, valued at 8s Bd. The Senior Sergeant said that accused and a younger boy had devised a great scheme for getting money. They were to go up behind a woman in the street, and one was to grab hold of her handbag, while the other cut the string with a. pair of scissors. This scheme they put into effect. Accused was ordered to be detained in the Borstal institution at Invercargill tor a term not exceeding two years. The younger hov appeared in the Children’s Court, and was charged similarly to Phillipson. He was committed to the care of the Child Welfare Officer. AI iL EG EI > INI) E(’ EN C A'. GISBORNE. Feb. 2-1. A young man named Oliver Leonard Evensen. charged before .Mr Levvey. B.AT., with attempted carnal knowledge of a girl of fourteen years, was committed for trial. The evidence was to the effect that the man showed the girl anatomical studies in ft book, saving that she was old enough to know alt that was in the hook. He had also showed her ceitain indecent articles. NEW .MAGISTRATE. AUCKLAND, Feb. 20. Air J. H. I,uxford, a well-known and popular member of the Auckland Bar. lias been appointed Stipendiary Alagistrate. It is not yet known in which [•outre he will be stationed. Afr LuxI'ord was born at Palmerston North in 1890, and is the youngest son of Air \Y. U. Luxford. now of Mount Albert. He lias bad a distinguished career as athlete, and bis war record is extremely creditable, tor be was specially mentioned in dispatches from France by the late Earl Haig. RAIN IN DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN. Feb. 27. The warm dry spell was broken late nn Saturday night by cold rams and showers setting in from the south, continuing all Sunday and this morning. A FIRE. GISBORNE, Feb. 27. A two-storev fourteen roomed homostead of 1. Premlergast, at Uulia, was destroyed by lire last night. A small outbreak had occurred in the wash--I,,,use in the afternoon, but it was believed to be (extinguished. Premiergas t, while endeavouring to save effects from the upper storey had a narrow escape, a benzine lamp exploding necessitating his breaking through a window to get away. The house was insured tor £2IXIO. The contents acre ini 111sii FIRE AT OH UR A. TAUAIARANUI, Feb. 27. The main business area at Oliura was destroyed by live at nine o e <•' on Saturday night. The tire broke out in Airs’A. 11. Harold’s drapery. The Ihimes, tanned by a westerly wind spread to Airs J. Bleasel’s general store on the corner, then to Newton King’s offices. Simpson and Bate i solicitors), Airs .1. See cup’s drapery establishment and J. Seerup’s (tobacconist), : ,ll „f which were totally destroyed. Fire fighters worked bard but were unable to save the above mentioned premises. They succeeded, however, in saving the Bank of New Zealand, which would have gone but lor the fact that the recent ranfaii! Imd filled the tanks and ensured an ample supply of water. Insurances are unavailable. ALAN DROWNED. AUCKLAND. Feb. 27. Alcdvin Loveridge, aged 10, drivel of a bullock team at Huia dam construction, was drowned while bathing a pool on Saturday evening. He was l athing with a friend at the cm. of the tunnel farthest from the dam at dusk in a pool over six ,feet deep, when he sank, llis body was recovered. but artificial respiration faded to restore life. BAND JUDGE’S EULOGY. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 27. “A Grade Bands of New Zealand ,uld hold their own in contest with ustralian combinat'ons, and judging y the playing ait the last Sydney, ontest there is only one band which mild compare with the first three Do .inion ones,” states Mr E. Jackson f Brisbane, who was Judge ol tin oneert work and of the cornet sob hampionship at the New Zealand con est, which conelnded on Saturday. The Australian Band to which All ackson referred was the newly form ,d combination from Hamilton, a smal Mining town near Newcaste. 'lk irst three New Zealand bands, whit* io declared were better than any i Australia, save Hamilton Band, nr ,'ueen Alexandria’s Own (Wanganui) Ivaikorni (Dunedin) and Grevmoiit Municipal. A BURGLARY. PALA!KRSTOX X., Feb. 27. During the week-end the office : Ashliurst Railway Station was broke into and a sum of llis 2d in eoppe: and 9s Gd in silver was taken. VICTORIAN BOWLERS. ROTORUA. Feb. 27. The Victorian bowlers arrived noon on Saturday. . They played li rinks, representing Bay of Plenty, the afternoon, the Victorians being cl

tented by 1*29 points to 95. euchre tournaments decision CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 27 It is probable that the decision of Justice Adams that euchre tournaments conducted for profit are illegal, mav ho taken on appeal to the Full Court The Judge’s decision is said to he far reaching in its effect. A solicitor expressed the opinion that the judgment applied to progressive howling tournaments which are conducted on the same principle as euchre tournaments. In liis judgment Justice Adams said it was immaterial whether the game was one of skill or mixed .skill qpd 1 chance or of pure chance.