DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

SUPREME COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, December 10. In the Supreme Court to-day, tlio Dominion Trust Company, John Owen Jameson, company manager, and Cecil George McKelior, accountant and shareholder, sued James Stephen Day, public accountant, for £50!) alleged to he duo by Day to the estate of the late Richard Hayward, “inner. Day counter-claimed for £6OO for services to Hayward as agent, and domed the claim. In the Supreme Court, John Edward Hynes, for housebreaking, was sentenced to one year’s gaol. George Frederick Langley Smith and Janies Ryan, for an olleiiee at Timaru on a girl under sixteen, were sentenced to three years reformative. STILL UNCONSCIOUS. GISBORNE, December 10. Latest available inlorinatiou from Teararoa stales King E. Reed, the settler who sustained injuries at 'leararoa Hospital. It is understood lie was knocked on the head whilst endeavouring to catch a horse. BODY RECOVERED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 10. The body of Percy Haskell, drowned on Saturday afternoon was recovered (bis afternoon on the beach near Tebcmii river. INTERESTING COURT DECISION. HAMILTON. December 10. Insurance companies, according to a judgment given by Mr Justice Blaii to-day, are liable for claims after accepting a small Iranxler lee, even il the premium is unpaid. On this ground judgment was given for Arthur William Overall, a Manakau farmer, against Hu* Victoria lustiranoc Company. The lull amount of the claim was 0180. Overall received properl y 'from Ibe mortgagee. Mrs Helen Warren, and I,aid 2s Od transfer fee on an insurance, policy, believing the premium had been paid. 'l'lie judge, summing up, said the company in accepting the transler too lulled Overall into the belief than Ids premises wen* insured. 'lbis remained Hie position lid two days after the (ire, when the agents were mlornicd Iliai. Overall’s premium was unpaid.

A CHILD SAVED. GISBORNE, December 11. At a Sunday school picnic, at. Vaikolm, Joyce Ro-lie, a little, girl, aged seven, fell info* the river and was being carried away when .lean Ferguson, aged thirteen, plunged to her assistance and got her ashore after a severe si niggle. CORONER’S PRAISE. GISBORNE. December 11. At an inquest at Tckaraka into the d,. : ,th of Joseph Wi Bangi. who succumbed to burns, sustained when a lamp overt urued, ( oroucr Lo\\e\ gn\< warm praise to a little Maori girl. Lily Otoiio. aged ten. for her remarkable presence of mind. The evidence showed the girl followed Hie boy when lm ran out of the? house, and extinguished the burning garment by wrapping bin. in a rug. Sl.e then relurned to the house and with water quenched the lire, thereby probably saving the life oif her sister, who was asleep. EX-GAOLER DEAD. "WELLINGTON. Dee. 11. Obituary.—Jeremiah Charles 'Scanlon, for many years in charge of Terraco Gaol, aged sixty-eight years.