DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

f(% Telegraph—Per Press Association.) hospital “care.” REPLY TO JUDGE SIM. WELLINGTON, Aug. 8. A reply has been made by the Wellington Hospital authorities to Mr Justice Sim’s remarks in connection with the Wellington Hospital doctors, arising out of the Injuries received by a carter named Needham (who died) when his express was struck by ft tram. The Hospital authorities state that the man was admitted to the Hospital against his wish, and he was seen by a ward doctor. He complained of no pain. He demanded to go home. An examination was made. It revealed nothing to suggest there were fractured ribs but, as it bad been an accident case, the doctor persuaded him to stay the night. The man was X-rayed in the morning. The man persisted in going home, asserting that he feb nothing wrong, and as the X-raj showed no sign of any fracture to the doctor examining :it, the man was allowed to go. The Hospital authorities state that f the Hospital is to guard against the suggestions of a lack of care, it will nean that anybody reporting to the Hospital with a mere scratch would equired to he held there against his rill as the merest scratch might result n blood poisoning. The man in (plosion, having left the Hospital of his wii accord, placed himself under the are of his regular medical practitioner •ho attended him until his death. The ireumstances were investigated at the dme of the inquest and no charge had been made against the Hospital. Such anomalies as had occurred in this case were not infrequent. “I.f a diagnosis could be made as easily as some people suggest,” sav the authorities, "the practice of surgery and medicine would be much easier than it is. In this case the X-ray was a good shadowgraph, and even j after the post mortem findings, the shadowgraph does not suggest any fracture.”

, ' A FIRE. , ELTHAM, Aug. 9. A fire gutted ;i small detached building used as an office by the El- ’ til am Bacon Factory, the property of J. C. Hutton. New Zealand, Ltd., at five o’clock this morning. The office . furniture and effects were destroyed. , The total loss is about £250. The origin of the fire is a mystery. DEPUTATION TO PREMIER. WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. A large representative deputation waited oh the Premier to-day to urge that facilities be given for the Summer Time Local Empowering Bill. Local bodies, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturers and employers associations, medical profession and educational bodies were represented. Mr Coates said the proposal was entirely new to him and would require consideration. He failed to see how transport difficulties could be overcome. Ho would consider the matter and give Mr Sidey a reply. BODY FOUND. CAMBRIDGE. August 9. Yesterday afternoon the body of a man was found hanging from a tree in a plantation at Rotorangi, close to and within full view of the main Te Awa-inutu-Cambridge road. 'I he body was found by an elderly Dalmatian. When the Cambridge police arrived the body had been cut down. Its condition indicated that death took place the previous night. An examination disclosed nothing to lead to deceased’s identity, 'fhe body is that of a well-built man about thirty years of age. The police made numerous inquiries in the neighbourhood, but no one had seen a stranger about. DAYLIGHT SAYING. DUNEDIN, August 9. The City Council has decided to wire to the Prime Minister approving of a scheme of daylight saving for cities. SORDID DIVORCE CASE. WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. A divorce case characterised by Justice McGregor as an extraordinary one. came before him in which the wife sued the husband for dissolution of | marriage on the grounds of adultery with her mother, an elderly woman with six children. The evidence all through was of a sordid character, and the Judge summed up very much against the applicant, saying there was no proof against the mother. The | jury in a few minutes found for respondent and the ease was dismissed. < LORRY DESTROYED. TAUMARUNUI, Aug. 9. "When J. Walsh, a carrier, was j driving a truck down Okahkura Hill last evening, the steering gear failed and the lorry, with the full load of timber went over a bank. Walsh , jumped clear and escaped with a se- j vero shake. The lorry settled in a gully below and burst into flames. The lorry and three thousand feet of timber were destroyed. WOMAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY. DUNEDIN, August 9. At the Supreme Court, Elsie Clara - Babiek pleaded not guilty to charges j descending iq gravity from attempted ■ murder oil Charles Wilfred Waldron on May 18th, to less serious counts of causing bodily harm. Evidence was on i the lines of the court below. ] Waldron, a married man, separated . from his wife, was living with tilt accused. The day before the attack, he struck her, blackening her eye. Wald re it stated that he woke from _ sleep early that morning to find himself wounded by a blow from a toma- • hawk, his ear being nearly severed. i Cross-examined, he denied that lie 1 dragged her from her bed by the hair 1 or that tho blow s struck with the i tomahawk were in self-defence. ( The ease is proceeding. CYCLIST’S DEATH. PALMERSTON N., Aug. 9.

Following injuries to the bead sustained oil Thursday evening last as the result of a motor cycling accident Hugh Moore, nineteen years old, who resided at Kimbolton, died at the hospital. Moore was found by a passing motorist lying unconscious beside his cycle which apparently skidded on loose metal.

BLACKBALL MINE. GREYMOUTH, Atig. 9. Over 1-60 men will receive notice of dismissal to-morrow as the result of a decision to work the Blackball mine one shift only. _____