DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. UNITED PARTY. WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. For the United Political Party, Kenneth McLennan is to contest the Wellington Suburbs, ami Councillor John Burns is to contest Wellington South. ROTORUA- TAUPO RAILWAY. ROTORUA, Aug. 1. | The first sod of the Rotorua-Taupo railway was turned unofficially to-day. The work was commenced five miles out, opening earthworks. Mon are being put on as tho work opens up, and accommodation is provided. LETTER SORTER’S FALL. WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. Daniel Darwin Coyle, 41, a letter sorter in the Post Office, pleaded guilty at the court to-day to theft of three letters, containing in all £t ss. He had been employed as a. sorter for the past twenty years. He attributed his lapse to a severe illness with attendant financial obligations. Magistrate Page said he would consider the ease and remanded him till Friday for sentence. HUSBAND’S TFIREATS. PALMERSTON N., Aug. 1. Counsel for the defendant, Norman Ernest Stanley, submitted there was no case to answer, as the letter, the subject of the charge, was not addressed to or received by the person against whom the threat was made. The Crown Prosecutor referred his Honour to the English decision, where tho Court of Appeal held a man guilty of having sent a letter to Ramsay MacDonald threatening to kill a chief detective. ■ His Honour over-ruled the objection. Accused was found guilty and was sentenced to six months, promising to keep away from New Zealand after the sentence was served. MO A BONES DISCOVERED. DANNEVIRKE. Aug. 1. Three sets of inoa bones have been discovered on the property of Mrs P. (\ Wall, at Teuri. The manager of the property, J. B. Thomson, was engaged in ploughing operations when the horse became hogged. In digging to free the animal Thomson struck what he thought to ho a log, hut a closer inspection showed it was a large moa hone. Further examination unearthed three sets of leg hones, and it is thought there may yet he further skeletons’ remains.