DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Press Association.). POLITICAL, AUCKLAND, September 10. Tho selection of Mr J. S. Fletcher to contest tho Grey Lynn seat in tho United Party’s interest is announced. Mr Fletcher was fonnely a director of tho Fletcher Construction Company Ltd., but lms now retired. Other candidates for Grey Lynn aro Messrs F. N. Bartrum (Labour) And Basil H. Howsc (Liberal). TRAIN STRIKES A CAR. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept., 10. Eenrly this afternoon, a motor-car was struck by a train on a railway crossing at Addington, Tho driver attempted to pull up, but tho car was struck by the engine and thrown over the cattle stops, and damaged almost beyond recognition. Tho occupants were not injured.

A FISH SHOP ASSAULT. . WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. Resenting some remarks passed, according to counsel about New Zealanders and New Zealand football, Walter Norris a young olerk, assaulted John Weir, in a fish shop on Saturday night. He was fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment, .£2 10s of the fine to be paid to Weir for medical expenses. ,

LUCKY ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, September 11. Mrs Beckham, of Auckland, driving a two-seater car near Rangariri, was unable to negotiate a sharp turn, and crashed through a bridge railings and fell with the ear ton feet into the river, the car landing upside down, almost completely submerged. Mrs Beckham and a male passenger scrambled out and neither were seriously injured. TRAM FARE DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, September 11. Oncliunga Borough Council by six votes to four carried a motion to talce legal advice on the steps necessary to compel the Tramway Department to remove tram and tram tracks from the, borough. This followed on a refusal by the company to grant a fourpenny fare to and from the city and a worker’s threepenny ticket. false pretences.

GREY.MOUTH, September 11. Alfred Ernest Smith, an habitual criminal, was sentenced this morning to six months on each of two charges, to be, concurrent, for false pretences, and passing valueless cheques at Ivnmnra and Greymouth. stallion imported from. ENGLAND. AUCKLAND, September 10. The English-bred horse ' Whirlwind 11, purchased in England for the Auckland Stud Company, arrived by tho Westmoreland to-day.