DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE,

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

WELLINGTON, May 28

Allen Grant Wishart, a seaman, aged 29, who plunged into the harbour yesterday was to-day charged with drunkenness and attempting to commit suicide. The .police stated that after he was pulled from the water by a watersider, letters were found at his hotne indicating lie intended to commit suicide and that his body, would he- found at the wharf. He had had some trouble with his wiifc. On a charge of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged. On the other charge he was ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months if called upon. OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, May 28. Obituary.—Aiiiolius -Borland Smith, aged 94, private secretary to several Prime Ministers and two Governors of New Zealand and to -Ministers of the Crown. A COMING RETIREMENT. ASHBURTON, May 28. 4V. F. 44'atters, headmaster oif the Ashburton High School since August, 1905,. is, ,r<;Yiriiig on .superannuation on September 10th next. MAN KILLED. -A HA4VERA, May 28. William -Kilgour, a. labourer, aged about’ 63, living at Patea, met with what 'is believed to be an instantaneous death in Patea railway yards at 6.20 last evening! ;>yhen he was ’struck by the slowly i niiqying engine of the incomi.ng gooijs,in from the north. From' the signs of the Impact low on Hie engine cow-catcher and from the f ut that no one was seen on or near the line from the engine as the train approached the station it is' believed deceased had previously fallen when attempting to cross the line and was actually lying beside the line when the train drew in. KILLED BY BUS. WELLINGTON; May 28. ' William Henry . Davies, married, aged 66, was knocked down and killed by a motor bus at Fotose last nigh#, the wheel passing over his head. COMMITTED FOR 1 TRIAL. , CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. Albert Ernest Craddock, ilged 60, a land agent, wits cominitfed for trial on charges of receiving £BBS from A. E. Baxter and fraudulently omitting to pay ii> to the firm of 4Vallace and Sons, of which accused was a partner. The police said the money- was banked by accused ,in liis own account after a house siile. -Bail v/as allowed. Accused pleaded not guilty. A GENEROUS BEQUEST. h CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. , Under the will of the late Mr F. N. ’Adams, : £15,000 is 1 to diaiuled 'over to the North Canterbury Hospital Board i for a new ward or operating theatre, mpon the death of the members of liis family.

THE.PROHIBITED,: NEGRO.

STILL IN AUCKAND.

AUCKLAND, May 28

Altliough Robert Lanier, who arrived in January to join Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition, was to have left yesterday by the Golden Cross as a prohibited immigrant, he is still in Auckland, despite the fact that the steamer put back to port at 10 o’clock last night on account of the stormy weather and sailed again for ’Frisco at 9.25 this morning. DAIRY CONFERENCE. Auckland; May 28. Mr 44 T . Grounds, speaking at , the North Auckland Dairy .Cefiference said that witliin six years 'the ■ North’ Auckland area would be one- of -the greatest producing districts in the Dominion, largely as a result of the free use. ef fertilisers and improved methods of herd testing. ,} Negotiations were in progress which he hoped would prove an alternative to the central system. lam convinced, he said, that the majority of producers are being lulled into a false sense of security hy the good prices, which have prevailed. I feel that there may be an awakening to the need for being prepared in case these prices do not, continue.