DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. NEW JURY WANTED. HAMILTON. Eeh, 29. There was an unexpected development in a Supreme Court case tlnmorning, when a young piano salesman. Raymond Gifford, was charged with so negligently driving a vehicle as to cause the death of Leslie Spencer. aged twenty, in a cellision which occurred between detendant s car and Spencer’s motor cycle at tiro cl ossroads at Clamlelamls on December 19. The case had proceeded some distance uhen his Honour, after a few minutes' adjournment, said it had been reported to him that a member of the jury had been a fellow-worker of deceased. To avoid any question concerning the fairness of the trial, and with the concurrence of both counsel. Mr Justice Blair discharged the jury, and a new one will he empanelled tomorrow. The Court thereupon adjourned for the remainder of the day. OPERATION AT SEA. WELLINGTON. Eeh. 29. On February I Ith, when the steamer Ruapehu was olf Pitcairn Island, a radia message from the freighter Westmoreland, which was a lew hours behind the Ruapehu, asked for medical assistance, one id the Severn, cadets on the '.freighter being seriously ill with appendicitis. Till* R ii;ip<‘Jiii*> doctor \v;»s iiic;ipncitilled with a hadlv-sprained ankle, hut the steamer put hack eight and a hall hours to the Westmoreland, and a passenger, |)r Hudson, went aboard ami operated next morning, and was transferred hack to the Ruapehu on February 16tli. D,- Hudson L returning to Nelson, alter simlving at Home, where he limn ied. attack on cow. GISBORNE. March 2. A native, Enoka r l oherere Baku juiir.. at Tokomaru Bay was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court, having pleaded guilty to unlaw lull\ wounding a cow. A case ol gross cruelty was disclosed, a cow - hating been found with several cuts on its hack, inflicted with an axe, the rump hone being almost severed. Accused admitted having been awakened at night by the cow in the garden and that he attacked it with an axe. UNITED POLITICAL PARTY. CHRISTCHURCH. March I. A definite assurance that the new Political Party, which in the meantime is known as the l nited New Zealand Political Party organisation, is now firmly established in the Dominion and is going ahead in all eentics was given to a reporter last night by one of the sponsors ol the movement. “We are right on the job.” he said, •■and at the next election will contest about seventy of the eighty Parliamentary seats. The name of- the Party has not yet been decided upon, and neither has a permanent leader been appointed. TOURIST AFFAIRS. CHRISTCHURCH. March 2. The Tourist Department which has boon subjected to niiiTm criticism recently was defended by the Hmi. Mr Nosworthy in correspondence read at last evening's meeting of the executive of the South Island Motor l nion. •In no single ease.” he writes, “has a tourist been persuaded by Governinen! official not to visit the South Island and I may say in reply that it is lint satisfactory to deal with generalities.” “Evcrv effort is being made to place both islands on the same looting,” stated the Minister. DRIVER FINED. ( IfEISTt lIUIU 11. March I. Joseph Bertram Neale, an accountant. was lined CHI and costs on a charge of negligently driving motor r;,r. ’till was the com! In an a.<ident in Ferry Road, where a motor cyclist was so injured that his leg had tn he amputated. Ihe speed ol tin 1 ear was estimated at 35 miles an hour. A FIR i:. ASHBURTON. March 2. A fire at four this morning destroyed a. five roomed house at Lisinorr- owned bp G. Milligan and occupied by E. Young. The latter saved the children through the bedroom window clad m their 'nigh l - attire. Insurances •” - unavailable nothing was saved.