DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. BURGLAR RANSACKS MOUSE. CHRISTCHURCH, Aiay 23. Substantial booty was obtained by a thief who broke into the house of A. G. Rutter at Limvood on Saturday. The sum of £25 in notes, and £5 from a child’s money box were taken. 'the house was completely ransacked, but the thief rejected a quantity of jewellery.

NORWEGIAN WHALER

AVELLINGTON, May 23. The C. A. Larsen arrived from Port Chalmers this morning, and berthed at Aliramar to take in fuel oil for the return voyage to Norway. LOTTERY ADVERTISING. TIAIARU, Alay 23. At the Alagistrate’s Court to-day, the proprietor of a local furniture establishment was fined £3 for a breach of Section 41 of the Gaining Act. 1908. To advertise his business, the defendant had offered to give any piece of furniture in liis shop to the winner of a lottery. No charge was made for entry. The. proprietor of the newspaper which published the details of the lottery was fined £l.

MOTORIST CAUGHT DRUNK. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 23. John Hurseth Hunt, a motorist, who while drunk in charge of his motor car, collided with a tram yesterday, was to-day fined £lO, and his license was cancelled for twelve months.

AVELLINGTON ART GALLERY. AVELLINGTON, Alay 23. Considerable progress has been made towards the collection of £70,000 towards the Art Gallery and Museum, and that amount is in sight in large sums, after which a general canvass for the remaining £30,000 will he undertaken.

DAIRY CONTROL. AVELLINGTON, AL-fy 23. The Dairy Board met to-day and decided to defer enforcement of the export license conditions until aftei the annual meeting in July.

OBITUARY. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 23. The death of Air James Rutherford, father of Sir Ernest Rutherford, at the age of 89 years, is reported. CYCLING ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 24. AH- John Barrett, while riding a bicycle in Barbadoes Street yesterday, collided until a motor lorry. He had liis son. aged three years, on the handlbars. Both were taken to the hospital, suffering from abrasions and shock. Barrett was unconscious, hut regained consciousness during the evening. Both are progressing.

SIR CHARLES SKKRHKTT. AVELLINGTON, Alay 23. There is a slight improvement in the condition of Sir Charles Skcrrett, Chief J ustice. MARKING OF CHEESE. AVELLINGTON, Alay 24. At a meeting of the Dairy Control Board, it was reported that the Board was investigating the methods of impressed marking of cheese, hotli with the letters “ N.Z.” and the words “New Zealand.” It was decided that white and coloured cheese should be on separate consignment notes. CONSENT TO AIARRIAGE. WELLINGTON. May 23. Rather an unusual case was before Judge Smith, in the shape of an application for an order consenting to tho marriage of a girl of eighteen and a-lialf years, and a man of full age. The girl’s parents refused their consent, on the ground that the man was mentally affected, hut an examination by a doctor found no evidence in support of this, and the parents therefore left it to the Court. Judge Smith called both of the parties to the case before him, and also finding no evidence of mental disorder in the suitor, he made an order consenting to the marriage.

BIGAMIST’S PETITIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 23. A case in which a bigamist had filed a petition for divorce from liis wife on the grounds of desertion, was before Mr Justice Adams at the Supreme Court to-day. The petitioner was Frederick William Seaton. He did not appear in support of his claim, but his wife, Olive Elizabeth Seaton, was present, and she secured a divorce on a cross-petition, on the grounds of desertion and adultery. Tho wife gave evidence that at Palmerston North in 1921 she evidence against Seaton on a charge of bigamy, when he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. MTNER KILLED. DUNEDIN, May 23. While working in the Shag Point coal mine this morning, William James Robinson way buried under a fall of earth, and was killed. Robinson, who was a single man 30 years of age, was erecting some staging in company with a workmate, when six tons of earth fell from above. His workmate jumped clear, receiving only a cut on the head, hut Robinson was completely h ur ied. His body was recovered after three hours’ digging.