DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

TIRE in LODGE ■ROOM. (By Telegraph—Ti ess 'Aosociationg -HASTINGS, July 1. 'A fire at Hpr.etauiiga Masonic ‘Lodge destroyed an ante-room, leading to tpe iCiiiple, and the lazier, us wen as the reicctory, was badly damaged by fire, gmjiie uiid water: "x lie regalia of Herelauilga alKi Tiaeata Lodges whs lost.-. • Insurances on the building was. i!i,451), arid contents -fittings and Heretaunga -regalia £550, all in ' llip. National. Hu/cata regalia was insured for ; J £disl> in tlie Sout-'icfn 'Union jbffife. 1 y BOY TNjbltEDp ' [ ',[• ' i'HAS'i’I’NGS, July 1. A 14-year-od buy, Maurice Brooker, Was: dtno'ckeif over liy a inotor c-itr i n Havelock-Hastings [Road oil Saturday night and suffered a. fracture of tile, •skull., He is iif the hospital in a sorious condition. . . . WAR SERVICE yiCTIAI. . U . INVERCARGILL, July 1. -Information 'was received by the police [this morning, that TVilliam Djck, limn, aged 48, -residing at ‘WOodjiirids, had been found dead with liisYtiiroat cut.' ‘lt is stated that Dick was, a returned soldier,' living with his’-’ mother. He suffered from tineffects df war wounds, and had been depressed for some time. 'HEATH FROM EXPOSURE. : ’ DUNEDIN, July 1. An iiujiiiry[\[!iri«? circumstances surrounding the of Henry Alexander Yprston, labcWrer, aged '33, lyho evil's found cleaci in* [a wnter tahle on. tjVe North Taieri Road ftjii [Jiiine concluded yesterday. It was presumed ‘that [the deceased [.fell ill to‘- thy ditch, anil was unable to get up. The Corqn'-r returned a Wrdfctvthat-death iyns clue to exposure to [cold, following the immersion in the water table. ; ■ t