DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

G.K..AI. SOCIETY. WELLINGTON, April 17

The annual conference of the Church of England Men’s Society opened today. An address was given by Bishop Spruit, in which lie ascribed the fail•ire of Hie Society to increase its ineinoersliip as being principally due to the great upheaval in religious matters generally.

REFORM PARTY. WELLINGTON. April 17. The Reform Party held a Caucus here to-day. There were 13 members pre.-em. Apologies were received from absentees. The .licensing question and other questions were discussed amicably. A resolution was unanimously passed of confidence in the Prime Minister on his administration. Tho Prime Minister subsequently would not tell Hie date of the general election or of flic opening of Parliament.

The conference sat in the morning afternoon and evening.

RACING CLUB’S DONATION. AUCKLAND, And 17. At tlie meeting to-dav the Auckland Racing Club committee decided to donate £IOO to an Olympic Games representation fund. £7lO RING THEFT. WELLINGTON. April 17. A man walked into Jenness and Partridge's. jewellers. in Manners Street, to-day. representing himself, to fie a racehorse owner, and asked to see a diamond ring valued at £7lO. The man took it to the door, as though to set it in a hotter light, and then bolted.

He was later found in a hotel bar displaying the ring, and he was ar rested.

BURGLARIES. WELLINGTON, April 17. Three burglaries took place on Saturday evening at Lower Mutt within a short radius, and LUO worth of jewellery is said to lie missing from one house, £3O worth of jewellery from another, also clothing, and clothing from a third. In the first instance, tho

wife was left alone at the home. Hearing a noise she went to investigate, but the intruder switched off the light and vanished through a window.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH. WELLINGTON. April 17

That New Zealand is working on Hie right lines in regard to scientific agricultural research, is the opinion of Dr. C. .1. Realms. Director-General of Agriculture, who returned to-day alter a world tour in the course ol which he attended (lie Imperial Agricultural Research Conference in London. I’ite result of his inquiries will be made I lie subject of ■> report t* * rbi> Cnverment. The work of the conference has hoon very vel'iablv. and l)r. Realms xvtts able to gain ktn'xvIclge ol research activities io various parts ..1 tin- Empire and the Con’incut.

.So far as lie could see Die mm kit jug oi New Zealand’s -lairv produce and meat was working smoothly in London. New Zealand rood tee hold in high esteem.

TIC KUITI MEETING AT ELLERSLIK. AUCKLAND. April 17. Owing to exceptional circumstances which have prevented To Kuiti Racing Club front racing on its own course, permission to-day was granted by Auckland R.C. Committee to bold the meeting at Ellerslie about June l(;t)i amt 18th. subieel to the approval of the Auckland District Committee.

AN AUCKLAND PROTEST. AUCKLAND. April 17. A protest by G. A. Beitl owner, of Lucy Rose, against White Wings being declared the winner of the Onslow Stakes Slt the recent autumn meeting will ),e heard by the eommittc the Ancklad Racing Chili on Friday, ft is umlertsood the question involved is whether tlie owner of AYliite AA ings. T. Chollimi. trains his horse himself, as declared.

tipsy yofth takes car. AUCKLAND. April 17. pleas of guilty were entered in the Police Civil rt by Robert Joseph Charles Draper, aged 17 years, who appeared on remand on six _charges arising out of an accident in Tvnrangnhaps ltd. on February 25th. Accused was (barged with converting a motor car to his use,, and with being i.n a state of intoxication while in control of a ear. Tie also admitted having no license, and driving the car negligently in Knrangahnpe Road, besides two further e units of damaging the ear. and a verandah. Tn the course of the car's career along Knrnngahnpe Rond. David Thompson was knocked down, and as a result of his injuries, he was confined to the Auckland Hosoital for some tinto.

'When pleading leniency on Draper’s behalf. All- Sullivan said the youth had never been in trouble before. lie had taken some whisky, and had “gone mad." The expenses at the Hospital had totalled £25. said Sub-inspector P. J. McCarthy, bo-ides which Thomson’s suit had been damaged.

Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M. said he was prepared to give a tensed a chance. Draper was convicted el negligent driving, and was directed to pay £3 > t„ Thomson, at the rate ot Lis a week. On each of the other five charges accused was convicted and discharged. NO X.X. HOM ING CREM’ FOR OLYMPIC GAMES. CHR’ISTCHCROH. April IS. 'flic New .Zealand Olympic eight-oar crew cannot he sent to the Games at Amsterdam, according to a telegram received by Mr R. -L Hobb- (Christchurch) from the organising secretary ~f the Olympic Committee at AYellington. yOFNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.

DAXNEYTRKE. April 18. As ti result of a car collision late yesterday afternoon on the top of a hill, at a bend of the road between Mntapnau and Ormomlvillc. Horace Walters, aged 23. single, whose parents reside in Auckland, is now an inmate of the Dannevirke Hospital m a critical condition. A small threeseater car. driven hy Rett Hally, a managing salesman of Auckland, who had with him three other young men. was approaching Dannevirke when it met ill a head on collision with a car driven by Ray Purton. motor salesman. of Palmerston North. Makers j who was in the front seat with Hally : was not thrown out but received the full force of the impact, and was seriously injured internally. None of the others were hurt. M'alters was operated on during the night. His condition is low. AY ALTERS SUOCTMRS LATER. M’alters died at 11.30 this morning.