DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

SUICIDE WITH GAS TUBE. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association, j HAWERA, July 29'. A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning while in an unsound state of mind, was returned at the inquest this afternoon on the death of Wyatt Matthew Clarlf, single, 58, whose dead body with a gas tube fastened to the clothing was found, on'July 15tli. in a billiard room kept by deceased. Evidence was given that Clark previously attempted suicide at Palmerston North in 1925 and, several weeks before his death he complained in a letter to a friend that at nights he was frightfully tired and could hardly walk home. FELL OFF TRAIN. A ' CHRISTCHURCH, July 27 Through falling off the Culverden train near Bryndwyr, this morning. Joseph Urlieh, married, aged 39, a visitor from Hawera, was seriously injured. He had arrived by the ferry steamer, . and was going to Hanmer with friends. The mail had a broken elbow, injured shoulder, injury to his head, and was suffering from shock. He was admitted to the hospital. SPENT £BO ON LIQUOR. ASHBURTON, July 27. During the hearing of charges of being idle and disorderly, against four men, three of whom had huts on the river bed, the police stated that one admitted having spent £BO on liquor in the last five weeks. When the police visited the place last evening they found about eighty 1 Kittles of liquor, (hi another occasion twelve sugar hags full of empties were found, requiring two motor car trips to remove. Frederick George Sheehan, Patrick o’Hanlon, and Douglas Wilkinson were sentenced to fourteen days. Robert Samuel Stock was convicted and discharged. All four were remanded on charges of either selling or assisting in the sale of liquor. A BIG SLIP. O'iAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY BLOCKED. DUNEDIN, July 27. Following upon the recent wet weather a huge slip, completely filling a cutting, has come down on the Central Otago railway and will dislocatr the service for several days. In the meantime a limited service is bein' run from each terminus, and passengers are placed under the necessity of walking around the slip to a train on the other side. TRAWLING STRIKE. OWNERS GRANT CONCESSIONS. July 29. The trawling strike, which has, losted over ten days, has been declare! off by the men, who resumed to-night. Two meetings of the Conciliatioi Council were held to-dav. The. employers gave the men certain concessions regarding time on shore, and it is considered that the other matters in dispute will. be settled later with out resource to the Arbitration Court.

PRISONER ESCAPES. WELLINGTON, July 27. William Maryatt Ingram, who was arrested at Taihape on a charge c-f false pretences,, while travelling with a constable, jumped from the Limited as it was slowing down at Auckland Station and escaped among the crowd. FRENCH WARSHIP. .AUCKLAND July 29. It is understood that there will be no civic reception to the officers of the French warship TourviUe arriving in the morning. ( POTATOES JUMP UP. WELLINGTON, July 30. Potatoes have risen from £8 10s last week to £ll. The only reason given is that the price had risen in the south, but there is no known shortage. BANANA PRICE DROP. WELLINGTON, July 30. The Maui Pomare is still unlucky. She brought a full cargo of bananas in good order the same day as the Maunganui arrived with a similar cargo from Knratonga, with the result that the price-dropped fifty per cent and was not payable. N.Z. INSURANCE COY. AUCKLAND, July 29. The balance-sheet of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., for the year ended May 31st last, shows that the net income from premiums, interest and rents, amounts to £1,318,051. The surplus on the year’s transactions amounts to £214,281; and the reserve fund has betm. increased by £"5.000., The Directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of | lid per share; absorbing £68,750'; making Is 10c! per share for the year; and leaving a not balance of £131,324 to be carried /forward.

STOREMAN THREATENED WITH REVOLVER. CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. Early this, morning two men were accosted by a storeman in the City

Council’s yard in Moorhouse Avenue, and while one ran away the other threatened him with a revolver if he reported anything of their visit. The police apparently have some hope of tracing the men, who they believe may have had something to do with the incendiarism that has been rife in t'te city of late.

The storeman and city officials have been pledged to secrecy, and little can be learned of the incident, .