DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association

REFORM CAUCUS. WELLINGTON, July 18. A caucus of the Reform Party was held this morning.. Subsequently Mr Coates stated that the business was the consideration of the Government’s legislative programme for the session. MAORI WOMAN KILLED. HAMILTON, July 16. A Maori woman, Mrs Whaiewhai, was killed on Saturday night, near AVaihou, when a motor-lorry ran over a five-foot bank into a swamp. The driver of the lorry, J. AValker, appeared in Court at To Arolia to-day charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a vehicle. He was remanded.

SHIELD WINNERS' CONGRATULATED.

CHRISTCHURCH, July 19.

Included in the telegrams of congratulation received by AVairarapa representatives was one from the Mayor of Masterton in which be made a suggestion that the Shield should be dropped overboard on the trip to AA rellington.

TRAIN DERAILMENT. DUNEDIN, July 19

A mixed train from Oamnru came to grief near AA r aikauaiti at 6 o’clock last evening, eleven waggons being derailed. Apparently one waggon jumped the rails and was dragged some distance on ballast before capsizing, and derailing the rest. The passengers were uninjured.

Tho Christchurch-Dunedin express was held up all night but tho passengers were transferred to a train beyond and arrived at Dunedin forty minutes past midnight.

SUMMER TIME. DUNEDIN, July 19

A large and representative meeting of all sections of citizens passed a resolution urging that .the Summer Time Bill should become a permanent measure.

SUPREME COURT. DUNEDIN, July 19. The following prisoners were sentenced :

David Bruce Baveridgo, five charges of breaking and entering, to five years reformative. Francis Sinclair Ward, four charges of breaking and entering, four years reformative."

George AVilliam Ureh, breaking and entering, two years' Borstal. These youths were concerned in the wholesale stealing of motor cars, extending over a period of a- month and have to be dealt, with in tTie lower Court on these charges.

Henry Milton Bates. 32, Four charges of forgery, throe \onis probation. David Lionel Jacobs, breaking and entering, three years probation. LADY GOLFERS. DUNEDIN, July 18-

Misses Olive Kay (Otago champion) and M. Stevens left for Sydney this morning to compete in the Australian ladies golf championships.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE. AA r ELLINGTON, July 19. The hearing of the charge against Marion Koerbin, of having attempted to murder her husband, Herbert Koerbin, was continued at tho Police Court to-day. Detective-Sergeant Holmes continuing tho evidence said lie took a statement from the accused in which she said tho powdered glass found in a .locked box under the bed, bad been there for a long time. She bad not used it, no-r tho oral.ic acid in her husband’s food. The powder in the bottle found in her pocket was rat poison. Accused showed no signs o mental trouble, S'do stated her husband was worth fifty thousand pounds and' that his meanness was the cause of ail the trouble in the home. After evidence i>.v a Dominion analyst the accused was committed for trial in the Supreme Court. FOUNT) DEAD. KELSON, July I*>. Alexander Joss, aged 52, was found dead on the Hope road last evening. Deceased, who luid been l iding a bicycle, was apparently run down by a motor vehicle which did not stop. Ihe indications are that it niufctJ- have been a head on collision. Terrible injuries were inflicted and death was instantaneous.

PILFERED CARGO RECEIVER WELLINGTON, July 19.

Fourteen. -days were imposed to-day on Sidney George Tyson, aged 22, who pleaded i guilty to receiving 2J yards of art silk, valued at £l, the property of the Shaw Savill Coy., knowing the material .to have been dishonestly obtained/Defendant was a seaman on the Arawa, on the arrival of which vessel ait Auckland lately it was found that silk valued at £BOO had been pillaged. The Auckland police were advised that accused had disposed of some of the silk and when he was interviewed by the police here yesterday Tyson admitted having received it from another member of the crew, whoso name, he would not disclose. An order was made for accused to- he placed aboard the vessel if she sails, from the Dominion before the expiration of the sentence. N:’z. ACCEPTANCE, ■ WELLINGTON, July . 19.

Tho reply of the New Zealand Government to the Note from the United States Government, containing the revised proposals for the treaty for the renunciation of war, was handed to the United States Charge d’Affaires, in London yesterday. The text of, the reply will be available for publication in New Zealand to-morrow, simultaneously with tho publication in London and Washington. SERIOUS CHARGES. WELLINGTON, July 19.

Thomas Foilden Taylor, a Minister, aged 49 ,was charged this morning on eleven counts of indecent assault on males, varying in ages from 14 to 16. The offences were alleged to have been committed on 24th. June 1927 and April, 1928. On l.ic eve of appearing to answer these charges in May last, tho accused met with a serious accident, and since has lieen in hospital. To-day he was wheeled into the Court in an invalid chair. On the application of the Crown, the Court was cleared. SUMMER-TIME BILL. WELLINGTON, July 19. An assurance that the Summer Timo Bill would have a fair run in the House this session was sought from Mr Coates to-day by a deputation representing commercial, manufacturing, medical and educational interests, which stressed the benefits derived by a vast majority of the people from the trial given the scheme last year. Mr Coates said Parliament would have an opportunity of considering the measure.

ANOTHER: DERAILMENT. DUNEDIN, July 19.

A second derailment occurred at 10.45 this morning when eight wagons of the Duneifin-Oamaru goods train left the line about a mile soutli of Goodwood station. The train was due to leave Dunedin at 12.5 a .m., hut was running several hours late on account of tho hold-up at Timaru. No details are available. Arrangements were made to transfer the passengers of the through express to another train beyond Goodwood.