DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

By Telegraph—Ppr Press

CHRISTCHURCH, Afay 7. Obituary.—Robert Bowman Lowden, lie manager of the railway workshops it Addington.

SOLICITOR. THIEF. AUCKLAND, May 7. John Henry Victor Afansill, solicitor, pleaded guilty to theft of £2041 belonging to clients. He was committed for sentence. Bail was refused. The total defalcations are £7169.

TAXI-DRIVER’S AHSTAKE. AUCKLAND, Afay 6. Tlie robes and pastoral cross of Archisliop Averill were mistakenly placed

oil board the Afolanesian mission .steamer, Southern Cross, which departed from Auckland yesterday with the assistant-bishop elect (Canon "Wilton) and a party of missionaries. These articles were used at a farewell service at St. Alary's Cathedral., and then

acked in a bag. An unsuspecting aridriver gathered up the Archbishop’s ag, which was with other luggage in he hall at Bishopseourt. and conveyed to the steamer. Archbishop Averl\s first intimation that His robes

verc at sea was a wireless message, he first from the Southern Cross’s lew equipment, informing him of tho nistakc. Steps were taken to land the irliclcs at the lighthouse station at

I’iritiri Island, and a somewhat embarrassing problem was thus solved.

FOUND DEAD. H AAV ERA, Afay 7. With skull, nose and jaw fractured ilberl Francis Pluinti-ee, aged 25, a litiiy factuiy employee, was found lend on Palmer Road near Kaponga bout six o'clock on Saturday evenng. Deceased had been riding a iiiitoi- cycle which was found in a lamagod condition about thirteen aids from the body. Hairs adhering u tin; front of the machine iiulicatil that a collision with a horse or a uiilock had occurred.

STATE All NIC. GREYAIOUTH, Alay. 7. The State Aline trouble is due lo the management refusing to permit a man to work who was suspended for refusing to work ut a slip on Saturday, lo enable work to resume today. A union deputation interviewed the management and requested tlie man’s ieinstatemcnt-. This was granted conditionally on the man agreeing to obey instructions. This assurance was forthcoming and the mine will reopen to-morrow.

FIRE AT BLENHEIAL BHEXIIETAL Alay 5

A fire occurred at midnight at the rear of an office building owned by Mr J. J. "White and occupied by Air Andrew Duncan, land and commission agent, and Air C. T. Smith, solicitor. A two-roomed lean-to was badly gutted. The brigade’s promptitude saved the main building, which was insured for £9OO in the Pb-oenix Office. Mr Duncan's contents are insured for £175 in Hie Phoenix Office and._ATr Smith’s for £l5O in the Victoria Office.

TOTALISATOR INCIDENT. HASTINGS', Afay 5. Following on the totalisntor incident at tlie recent meeting, ,about ivbii-li some adverse comment lias been mule, the committee of the Hawke’s Hay Jockey Club held a meeting yes-:e-rday, and after full inquiry into

the circumstances pertaining to the general conduct of the sixth race, on Friday, April 27til. unanimously found that tlie totalisntor manager, Afr C. J. Tipping was not in any wav negligent or blameworthy in his conduct of the machine.

BORSTAL ESCAPEES. INVER CARGILL, Afay 7. Three escapees from the Borstal Institution, Herbert Harris Keith Mayfield, Charles Alitchell Newman, .‘.nil Thomas George Flanagan, npHeaved in the Police Court to-day to face charges of having escaped from custody. anil other charges arising out ol their unlawful acts, during the time they were at liberty. Newman was charged on three counts of breaking, entering and theft, and converting a horse to his

own use. Alaxliold’s list was four charges of breaking, entering and theft, three of converting ears to bis own use, two ri presenting loaded firearms, one ol theft, and one of discharging a firearm with intent to do grievous bodily

Flanagan bad four charges preferred against him, namely escaping from custody, two charges of breaking. entering and theft, and one ot theft. Newman pleaded guilty to all the indictable charges, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Maxtield pleaded guilty to all Hie indictable charges, save, that of discharging a firearm with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Alter hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said lie would give Afnxfiold the benefit of the doubt, and dismiss tlie charge.

Flanagan pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.

N.Z. RAILWAY GUARDS. WELLINGTON, Alay 7

The Wellington District Railway Guards’ Club to-day passed tlie following resolution: “That the Wellington Guards’ Club does not favour the forming of a Guards’ Union, ami is of the opinion that the Guard:, interests and the interest of the traffic members generally can best be seiied through the A-S.lt.S. ,

THEFT OF COAT. WELLINGTON, AL.y 7. When ALary Ellen Conrad. aged twenty, appeared before Afr PageSAL last week, charged with tlie theft of a lady’s coat, valued at £B. Chief Detective Ward said she was living with a man at Eastbourne. Ihe Afagistrnte remanded the case to enable the man to marry the girl in accordance with the man’s desire. _ To-day the Chief. Detective said trait the marriage toolf place on Saturday. The Magistrate convicted the girl and ordered her to come up for (entente within twelve months if called upon. The value of the coat, is to be made good within a month.

RELIGION IN MEXICO. AUCKLAND, Afay 7. The Catholic Hierarchy of New Zealand, at a meeting in Wellington last week, decided to send a letter, through Cardinal Hayes, of New York, to the Catholic Episcopate of Mexico, assuring them of sympathy, admiration and prayers. , , , Tlie letter, which is signed by Archbishops Redwood and O’Shea, and Bishops C!eary ; Brodie. Whyte, and

Liston, states:—“Your trials stand, we believe, seldom surpassed in tlie 1900 years of our Catholic life, and are scarcely exceeded, even hv the persecutions under the weird Domitian ami Caligula. A Government censorship and direction of the telegraphic news still sustain a campaign of eat muny. and seek to supress or to distort. the known, anil even the notorious facts of an aggressively atheistic war against religion in .Mexico; and considerations ol polities, finance, and commerce maintain a conspiracy ot silence on the part of the great bod\ of the American secular press. These sources of misrepresentation will pass, and we are confident that history will vindicate the fair name of the bishops and people of Catholic Mexico, am! will set down your fidelity to the faith of Christ as one of the noblest pages in her record. 5

N.Z. AAI ATE UR ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Alay 7

A meeting of the C ounoil of tho N.Z.A.A.A. was held to-night. IOakey’s time of 4 minutes 25 2-5 seconds for a two miles cycle event at Masterton was approved as an Australasian record. The following resolution was adopted That it be a recommendation from this Association that early steps be taken to ensure sufficient funds being made available for New Zealand to be worthily represented at the Olympic Games at Los Angeles mF"’ and that, to this end, each association representing the different interested branches of sport be set a minimum quota, which it shall be expected to have raised by the end of 1931. T. Kalaugher is to be tried out with a view to his inclusion in the N.Z. Olympic team. _ . The total profits on the Australasian Athletic Championships ip December were £378 10s.