DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

YOUTH STEADS OAR, (By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., July 16. Early last evening a youth at Pahiatua took a car from a motor garage. He was pursued by the owner and a constable, in another car. He was caught near Whakarongo this mprning. The youth was. brought before the Children’s Court and convicted and an order was made lor Ids return to the Weraroa State Farm BOOKIE FINED £IOO. ELTHAM, July 16. Antonio Novak, a restaurant keeper, of Eltham, pleaded guilty at the Court this mori(ing to a charge of bcokmaking and was fined £IOO, two months being given to pay. The accused made two ten-shilling bets with a detective.in connection with the Wellington races.

MAN SUICIDES. HAWERA. July 16. The lifeless body of William Wyatt Matthews, a clerk and billiard saloon proprietor, was found lying fully cloi..ed on a couch in a curtained alcove of the saloon, when the police entered about eight o’clock last evening. The body was covered with a billiard table cloth, inside of which was the end of a gas tube fastened to a button hole in. deceased’s waistcoat.. TJhe gas was still issuing from the tube. i

Deceased was last seen alive at 6.30 o’clock on Sunday evening when he left his lodgings to. go to the saloon. Ho was 57 years of age, was unmarried, and has no relatives in Now Zealand. CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. i WAIMATE, July 16. Pleading guilty to charges of concealing birth, Lomond Kennedy arid Juanita Winifred Wilce were committed for sentence to the Supreme Court in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by M’ C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M. Medical and police evidence was on the' lines of that at the inquest last Friday. ; rrj—7-U UF.-L' Kennedy did not (give evidence, but Wilce was put in the box by her solicitor and stated Kennedy threatened to kill her if she told anyone about being pregnant and after the birth he extracted money from her. He also knocked her about and kicjcechJier. TTHF-hf'" .( ’ Jwj FOUNDDEAD.S f| f MASTERTON, July 16. This morning at 9 o’clock a wellknown farmer, Frederick Vermann Nicholas Hoffeins, was found dead at the foot of a tree on his farm at Akura. He, had apparently-been* dead*; tfor two or three days. .apparently* fell off the tree, whiclfthOi-ftal top*; P»?S- v . ' , I .STILL RAINING;AT NELSON. f July 16.' • Further heavy rain fell throughout trie night and this, rinorning)-but there are now, signs of a clearing; - Mofcueka reports : that it is still* raining with rivers!; rising .again,, .causing further apxietyji to; ."settlers . along the, } river cOiirse The. rainfall "at Motiieka for the past nine days is over 14in. DIVINITY STUDENTS. AND MILITARY SERVICE. WELLINGTON, July 16. Qne Government’s decision with regard to the two objectors tov military service was announced by Sir Joseph Ward to-day. As the sentence stands it .would be improper, says Sir Joseph, to interfere with the course of the law an.d the decisions of the Magistrate would stand. Instruction would be issued, however, that in the future, students of divinity would have the right upon application to a Magistrate to obtain exemption from military service.