DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. MOTOR VICTIM DIES. DUNEDIN, April 10. Geoffrey Monerieff Gilchrist, a school hoy. aged seven years, died tit an early hour this morning, prestnnnibly as the result of injuries received when he was knocked down by a motor ear on 12th March. At the time ol the accident, the hoy was taken to the .Hospital, where ho was placed on tin' dangerously ill list. Ilis condition improved, and on April 2, lie was allowed to go home, where he again took ill and died.

An inquest was opened this morning. and evidence of identification was tnfcen. CAR SOM ERSAULTS THREE TIMES DUNEDIN, April 10. A taxi driver. Angus MeDiarmid, ol Ralelutlm, met with an accident when driving back from Hilleiul on Sunday with two male passengers. At Bishop's, the car overturned,' and somersaulted twice down a hank. Ihe passengers were unhurt, but MeDiarmid suflereel a broken arm. bruises and cuts. He wa- taken to Ilalelutlia Hospital for treatment.

lONIC’S ROUGH EXPERIENCE. AUCKLAND. April 10. hive days before arrival here last evening Irnm Southampton, the lonic with two hundred passengers encountered a severe storm lasting twenty hours. Captain .Jnckson said in his thirty years’ experience, he had never encountered stu b a big sea approaching New Zealand. The disks were swept fore and aft. ( oomhes, a passenger to Dunedin, was i aught in a heavy wash on the forward (leek, and thrown heavily against the rails, lie sulfered painful abrasions. Another third class passenger was almost lost overboard at the same time. A good proportion of the immigrants are of Scottish descent. A majority, if not all, were nominated by relatives or friends.

LAW SOCIETY CONFERENCE. Ol IRISTCH UR Cl I. April 11. The first annual conference of delegates of the New Zealand Law Society began this morning, A. Gray K.O. presiding. Hon. Uolleston delivered the inaugural address and Mayor Archer extended a civic welcome.

SALE OF TROTTERS. CHR LSTCII URCTI, April 11. There was a good attondune at the Pyne, Could, Guinness annual sale ol trotting bred yearlings and two year olds tills morning, hut bidding was exceptionally slack. Out ol the thirtyfour lots offered only four were sold. The principal sale was that ol a two year old hay filly by [iillin-Ma Hello, the property of Mrs Mabel Duncan, for GOO guineas, to a North Island client. The other sale was to .1. McDonald. a hay colt: by Mit tell light for 90 guineas. car accident. GISBORNE. .>rril 11. A motor ear containing 'four passena;.] s in addit ion to the driver went over the hank and into the river between Motu und Matawai last evening. one passenger Mrs \W .1. Karala receiving severe injuries. The ear was driven by Douglas Enemy and was conveying lour Maori ladies trout Waikato to Tolaga Bay. Shortly before reaching Matawai vi-ability was had through mist. The ear left the road and hurtled 50 foot down a hank Into the river. Mrs Karnta was pinned beneath the ear in the river, and was extricated with : onsiderahle difficulty.