DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

EVER INGHAM MILLIONS

i.By .Telegraph, Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 10. The Evoringham millions are the latest great fortune to come into notoriety. The estate is in Chancery ana is estimated at eleven millions, which will fall to the British Government in ten years if not claimed. One descendant is in Wellington, and he says that a combined attempt is to be made to prove their claims, by about 100 descendants in Australia and New Zealand. .-v similar attempt was made once uefore, but the lawyer who went to England died suddenly and was suspected to be the victim of foul play. ..fter that nothing more was done. FOOTBALLERS INJURED. DUNEDIN, July 15. Four footballers were hospitalled as the result of injuries in Saturday’s play. Nicholas Brandanovitch (Varsity B) not serious, head injury; Leslie Cardno, fractured ankle; Francis Onion, fractured shoulder; Eric Smith (Vasity A.) head injuries. BOY’S LEG FRACTURED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. ' Through a bag-of potatoes falling on mm, Francis Minchington, aged 11, buffeted a fraqture to his right leg yesterday afternoon and was admitted to the Public Hospital; Th|o boy was ■standing behind a cart when the tailboard fell down,, allowing the bag of .potatoes to rollout on top of him. His ;condition was. reported to be satisfactory ISst evening. , LEG BROKEN.: ' • •' CHRISTCHURCH, July 13. Alfred Hunt, a married man, fortyseven years of age, was admitted to the Public Hospital at 6.45 last night suffering from a fractured right leg. It is believed that he was knocked down by a motor-car, the scene of the accident being Oxford Terrace. MAN BURNT TO DEATH. DANNEVIRKE, July 15.: A fire, attended by fatal results, occurred iri a five-roomed wooden structure in Gordon Street last night, resulting in the death of Richard Lane, a well-known resident. of 80 years of a£e,‘ Who resided there alone. The fire was located in (the kitchen, decoased’s body Being there much, burned. ItTdsv’'surmised “•that Lane, who was physically feeble and a (former member of the Fire Brigade fell asleep while smoking and the ashes from his pipe caused the fire; ''-/V/i ~ ,-t- £■>■ FIRE IN WAREHQTISNij-'A., f I ’■ CHRISTCHURCH,. Jiily; ;;15. [; Damage /estimated at £4jooo,';-.was dope by a fire last evening iifcihb; packing room of. Bing Harris-. warehouse, Lichfield ' Sfcv-A,; 'b,ig Kstcickof tobacco which had/b^en./prepared'' : for delivery was destroyed. Other stock waS'damaged hyismoke.li The losses are .covered by/insurances iri tife-Suri Com-? pany. j Y .... From the position at which the fire apparently started it is thought" quite possible that inflammatory’ ..material might have -been introduced into the building by ' somebody breaking in, tnougli the firm does not suggest this was the cause.

THEFT CHARGE. GISBORNE, July 15. Albert James Lambert, alias Blake, was sentenced, at the Police Court to three months imprisonment on Targes of obtaining £ll by a valueless jheque at Gisborne and theft of a motor car at Wanganui.; ) i *: ' • _ - wet Week-end. WELLINGTON, July 15, Wellington has been fortunate in its week-ends this winter, till Satur-, day. This was Charity Day and the receipts from the sports were to go principally to the earthquake fund. The worst weather of the winter chose this particular date to make its appearance, and all games had to be played in a downpour of rain on fields so waterlogged that even the ambulance men were at times sprawling full length in muddy pools. Instead of some hundreds of pounds going to the fund, probably not even the expenses will be covered.

WHITE ISLAND COY. AUCKLAND, July 13. The New Zealand Directors of White Island Products Limited, Messrs O. Nicholson (Chairman), E. K. Davis, and H. G. Wilson, decided at a meeting this morning to resign. The meeting was held to discuss the policy put forward by the London Board of Directors, which has the controlling interest in the Company. It was decided that the matter should be left entirely in the hands of the English Directors and Attorney. Other resignations included those of Mr H. Welsh (General Manager) and Mr W. C. Young.

GAMING HOUSE RAIDED. STRATFORD, July 15. . ‘At the Court this morning Dominick Sisarich, proprietor of a restaurant, was fined £75 on a charge of keeping a common gaming house. The premises were raided by the police on Saturday.