DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

FINED FOR BETTING. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright NEW PLYMOUTH, June 7. Fines totalling £-10 were imposed by Mr Tate, S.M., at Waitara this morning on Thomas Norman Taylor, who pleaded guilty oil two counts of being in the street for the purpose of betting and having entered into a bet on the result of the Rata Hurdles at the Wanganui races. HIGHLAND DANCING AND PIPING DU NED IN C'OMPETITONS. DUNEDIN, June 7. In the piping and dancing competitions last evening were:— Marches (members of pipe band's only)—E. W. Ashby (Southland) 1, J. G. Copland (Balelutha) 2, R. M’Kenzie (Wylie’s Crossing) 3. Irish Reel (girls under eleven) — Daphne Allen (Dunedin) 1, Jessie Jardine (Oaniaru 2, Christina Tithcr (RiVcrsdale) 3. Sailor’s Hornpipe (hoys under eighteen) —Charlie Stewart (Wellington) 1, Leslie MacGregor (Mosgiel) 2, Willie Martin (Mataura) 3. Seann Truibhais (hoys under fifteen) —Percy Geddes (Christchurch) I, Charlie Stewart (Wellington) 2, George Reilly (Dunedin) 3. Sword Dance Dominion championship girls under eighteen)—Rita Millar (Oainarti) 1. Alary C. Thomson v-.angamii 2, Agnes Kloski (.Mosgiel) 3. DAIRY PRODUCE. INCREASED GRADING FIGURES. WELLINGTON, June 7. The Dairy Division grading figures for the nine months ending April show’ ,an increase for butter of 9.9 per cent at 79.638 tons and for cheese an increase of 14.3 per cent at 84,064 tons as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding season. Reduced to terms of butter-fat equivalent the gradings of dairy produce for the nine months show an increase of 10.24 per cent over the gradings for the corresponding period of the preceding season.

VALUE OF ATHLETIC PARK. WELLINGTON, June 7. Tn the Assessment Court the Rugby Union successfully objected to £15,000 odd as the valuation of Athletic Park. The value was fixed at £IO,OOO. It is Native land, on lease to the Union. MINING. BLACKWATEB RETURNS. REEFTON, June 7. The Blackwater Mine. Ltd., return for May is as follows: Crushed, 3350 tons, yielding 1215 fine ounces of gold, valued at £515871 Working expenses, £3790. Tn addition, the furnace treated 84 tons for a return of 70 fine ounces, valued at £297. Working expenses, £155. Capital expenditure £63, and development expenditure £569. Loss over all is £122.

KABTIGPS LAY-UP. AUCKLAND. June 8. The Kartigi sailed this morning for Westport, the dispute re the dismissal of the firemen having been arranged amicably. CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAAYA. June 7. AL B. B. Bennett, Conservative Leader, is reported to be fed up with his job. His emotions are obviously artificial, and Lis leadership has failed ' ' ■ •••■•-« the popular imagination. A« hi- "go increases, it is re-ivt'i-I that hi* pet ambition, harboured for "mir- is growing upon him. He foil'”' t- "dorn the British Parliju» !; *. T-fis private fortune runs into many millions, and it is expected that after the next election, lie will leave Canada, and wind up his career in the mother of Parliaments. WALKED INTO A TRAIN. WELLINGTON, June 9. At Petone, before Coroner J. 8. Barton, vS.AL. an inquest was he'd into the tlmUi of AAUlliam Daniell. who was killed by being struck by a train at Potmio crossing on the morning of 2-1 til ALiy. The Coroner returned a formal verdict that deceased met his death by -sustaining a fractured skull in collision with a train it the Petone railway crossing. I There were two subsidiary findings: Jue was that it was clear that he had mffered death in spite of all warnings. ie having walked into the train quite ybvious of everything. The otaer was hat it was perfectly clear that no dame whatever was attachable to the [river of the train. EX-SOLDIER’B DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. Walter AYillinm TTvphus. ami up. 'as found dead by his wife, with his liroat cut. in a shod near his res idnee; at two o’clock this morning. A • loodstained razor lay beside bis bodv. j fvplms. who was an ey-soldier, had \ eon suffering acute' depression, due | i ill,health. He lm'd suffered severe ounds and his health had been imlif- f •rent for a long period. Recently his t epression had been more marked. At * k« inquest to-day. Arr Levvv, B.AT., ] ‘turned a verdict of suicide while in v state of mental depression, h