DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

ENGINE AND LORRY COLLIDE;. (By Telegraph—Frees Association). OTAKI, June 17. . An engine going to lake a disabled train from To Horo collided with MiHenry Bill’s mo-or lurry at a crossing on Saturday. • The- lorry was badly smashed, «bqt the driver escaped serious injury. BULLET IN HEAD. AUCKLAND, June 17. Charles Spencer, twenty-four residing at Hayden Street, Ponsonby, was found at his home with a bullet wound in the head. A rille was beside' him. He was removed to the hospital. His 'condition is very serious. STAFF * OFFICER FOUND DEAD. WELLINGTON, June 17. The body of Hon. Lieutenant E. J. Shearme, of the New Zealand Permanent Staff, was found in a room at die military barracks in Buckle Street yesterday afternoon lying near a gas .Replace. The gas was full on. He .vas fifty-one years of age. He bad leen a South African veteran, and saw service in the Great War from 1914 to .917. He had been a member of the Permanent Staff for twenty years. ALLEGED EXAGGERATION. . ; ■*; AUCKLAND, June *l9. The Chamber of Commerce lias . Irajy.n, the attention ofo Sir Joseph Vai'd to the cablegrams received by nisi ness houses indicating the exag-gerated-reports in'London papers with .•ogarcl ';to . the' ‘earthquake, suggesting n authoritative statement be pubished tliyough'the High Commissioner ii Britain-’ also -through the New Zealand’ Government Agcnfs in North America.' They draw attention to the' comparatively narrow localisation of serious damage, and loss of life. The Chamber is communicating direct in a slhillar strain with the London Chamber of Commerce. OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, June 19. Obituary.—Joseph Orchiston, late chief telegraph engineer, actat 73. FINED £lO. WELLINGTON, June 19. Frederick Royston Nicholson, 35, was convicted and fined £lO and costs on a charge of intoxication in charge of a motor cycle. He denied beinsr in the state alleged but the Magistrate pointed out that several wit- , nesses stated he was under the influence of liquor and the action of the man \Vlio rode through the crowd looking at a fire, and over the firehose Was, to say the least unusual. The case arose from the fact that the defendantbgot iii/tho wav of the Brigades oiienitions;.during ■ a fire in AViliis Street, qii Saturday evening. A GALE. LEVIN, June 19; A south-easterly giile has been blowing since daylight and lias caused, considerable damage to power and telephone lines. Four large trees uprooted just south of Levin fell(| across the railway line causing the southern bound main trunk express to he Held up for an hour and other trains will be delayed,. ■