DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A BOWLER’S DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association). BLENHEIM. April 2. Charles Martin, 60, of Sutherland Road, Wellington, a member of the Newtown bowling rink visiting Blenheim for the Easter howling tournament, fell oil' a motor-ear when returning from Blenheim green to his hotel for luncheon yesterday, and sustained head injuries which resulted in his death at Wairau Hospital last night. Deceased was very well known and popular in Blenheim where he was a frequent visitor. He leaves a widow and four grown-up children. No inquest is necessary, the facts being plain and the accident observed by a number of people. The body will bo shipped to Wellington. FINED £2O. WANGANUI, April 2. Edward Nixon was fined £2O this morning for being the occupier of a shop used as a common gaming house. EXPLOSION ENQUIRY. WANGANUI, April 2. An inquiry into the dredge Kaione explosion, deaths of Joseph Cable and .. j iliam Mackinnon, opened this morn, ing. James Dalziel, assistant engineer, after describing what had occurred, said he supervised the cleaning of the tunnel where the explosion occurred. The stores in the tunnel were heavy oil, grease, one tin of kerosene, a tin with a small quantity of torebin, also a few empty tins'which had contained paint, ■/lit he found no trace of petrol. He noticed a lead pipe of the bilge pump had melted for about a foot. r l he inquiry was adjourned until McKiggue is sufficiently recovered to give evidence.

FLOOD DRIFT. DUNEDIN, April 2. A problem confronting the City Engineer is the removal of some 30,000 yards of stone carried down the bed of the Leith during the floods and weighing 40,000 tons. The relief fund now totals £4,080. A BOY’S DEATH. DARGAVILLE, April’ 2. A youth Edward Archibald Millstead, a farmer of Awakino Road, was found dead on the main DargavilleWhuugarei Road, just on the Borough boundary this morning. The youth left his father’s farm yesterday afternoon, riding a horse and leading another, to milk cows at Wharau. The father went to Wharau this morning in a service bus and noticed two horses grazing on the roadside. On arrival at the farm he found the cows had not been milked and immediately returned to where the horses were grazing and found his son’s dead body in a ditch near the roadside. The boy had evidently been thrown off the horse through the saddle girths breaking. It is strange the body had not been found until to-dav, as some hundreds of cars must have passed it between the time of the accident and the discovery. The inquest revealed a broken neck and a verdict of accidental death was returned.

WOMAN KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 31. Through skidding on a wet tramline early this morning a car driven by John Boyd Clark crashed into a telegraph post at the Clock Tower corner, and the four occupants were thrown out. Maureen Doris Mitchell, aged 25, was killed, and Cecil Penlington, had an arm fractured. The driver and Nora Rich were shaken and bruised. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. HAMILTON, March 31. Serious head injuries were received by George Foster, a married man with two children, in a collision, in a car driven by H. Cave, in School Gully, Hamilton East last evening. Foster' was unconscious when admitted to the hospital. He is in a critical condition.