DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A BANKRUPT,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

GISBORNE, Nov. 1

James R. Alurphy, a sheep farmer, filed a petition in bankruptcy, his statement showing a deficiency of £38,692. The amount owing to unsecured creditors is £39.837. Assets are valued at £1247. The amount owing to secured creditors is £27.659, this being the estimated value of the security.

OIL DISCOVERY. BRISBANE, Nov. 1. An oil discovery is reported in Passiporu district, at a depth of 360 feet.

TRAIN HITS CAR

ASHBURTON, Nov. 1

The South-bound night express ran into a motor on a crossing in town. The car was almost over when the collision occurred. The occupants escaped except Miss Alaggie AlcGregor. who received a fracture of a shoulder blade.

A DRUNKEN SPREE. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 1

“In making his escape from the nurses’ home he jumped on to a glass roof and damaged both roof and himself,” said Chief Detective Carroll when Egerton Shelley Waller Hanbury Leigh Hunt, a young man, educated at Westminster. England, was charged in the Alagistrate’s Court with being on the premises of the Nurses’ Home, Christchurch, on Sunday night. “He came to New Zealand to learn farming, but he has discovered that farming is not his natural bent.” said Air Bowie, who appeared for defendant. “He is- therefore returning to England. Before going back be thought lie would like a hit of a spree with his friends and he was drinking freely. Defendant was in a cantankerous mood. He was not there at the invitation of anyone. The nurses had nothing to do with it.” The Alagistrato: Defendant is convoted and discharged . and ordered to pay £3 lOs damages, in default 7 days’ hard labour.

ATILKArAN’S LUCKY ESCAPE CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. I

With his milk van crushed between two moving tramcars. Henry Daniel Spence, of Francis Street. Burwood, had a miraculous escape from death this morning. The accident happened when traffic on Ferry Road was heavy.

Spence, who was driving a Ford van, turned out of OUivicrs Road in the direction of the City running alongside a. City bound tramcar and before he had gone twenty yards he eolided with an outward bound tram, the light motor being crushed Ijet-ween it and the inward hound car. Spence was pinned into what was the driving seat, by the wheel. He managed to get out through where the windshield had been, with no worse in(juries than a bruised chest and a small cut on one finger. The van was extricated by means of a horse and dray.

IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. AUCKLAND, November 1

A far-reaching judgment affecting property left to a son under a father’s will, was given by Justice Blair in the case of C. A. Palmer v. A. IV. AY right, both of Mnnurewn. In 1323 a fire that started on defendant’s property was alleged to have been the cause oi the burning of a motor truck belonging to plaintiff, who obtained judgment (for the sum of C 565. A charging order nisi was made charging defendant’s interest under the will of his father will, provided the income from the estate should he paid “to all my children in equal shares for and during their respective lives, and so that they shall not. nor shall any of them have power to anticipate the same.” 'l'lie Judge said it appears to me that Section 24 of the Property Law Act utuhorises a father or grandfather to do If or son or grandson that which formerly could he done for the benefit only of a married women. If the restictions imposed protected a married woman’s share then since the passing or (Section 24. a Ifke restraint will protect a. son’s share. His Honour set aside the charging order.

A discussion between counsel indicated the judgment would possibly be the subject of an appeal.

GOODS TBATX HELD UP. AY H ANG ABEL November 1

'Plio northbound goods train which left Whangarei at 5.33 this morning was held up between Buatnngatn and Kauri by boulders, the largest of which measured twelve by nine by six feet and weighing many tons. 1 hese had boon dislodged hv heavy rain and crashed down the bush-clad slope three hundred feet high. Several boulders weighed about two tons. It is exported to have the track cleared this afternoon.