DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

LADY PRINCIPAL DEAD. - [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 2. Obituary—Miss Mary Victoria Gibsoj.r, for thirty years Principal o) the Christchurch Girls’ High School. She retired in 1929. 1 . . A MYSTERIOUS FIRE. . CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 2. A (ire broke out mysteriously at the stores of Jones Bros, Motor Cycle Agents, Bedford Road, last night, causing damage amounting to several hundreds, of pounds to the stock. No employee had been on the premises for 24 hours. ’ , . LATER; The fire insurances on Jones Bros, stock are, £OOOO in the Guardian, State and Phoenix Office. SHOOTING ACCIDENT: : CHRISTCHURCH,’ Sept. 2. While rabbit shooting yesterday Christopher Edwards aged 21, fell and received a charge of shot in the left leg which had to be amputated. A HOME BURNT. ASHBURTON, Sep. 2. The six-roomed residence of R. B. Barnett, a piano-tuner, on Saunders Rond, was destroyed by fire at mid-, .day; yesterday. Only two . or three small articles- of furniture were, saved. The .family had left for the country sometime before the discovery,' Insure nnceOn the house are about £6OO. MAORI’S DEATH. ■ GISBORNE, Sept. 2. Hoani. Trtutahi,. aged 75, died at Tepuia hospital from injuries self-in-flicted with a razor. During his sojourn in the hospital the patient resolutely refused, food >for three days, prior to his death.. , ; CAR OVERTURNS. . REAIARKABLE. ESCAPES.; - CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 2. ' A White Star -service c,ar. going from Christchurch . to, Blenheim, this, mbr.ning fan,offi thq .road ,in,Greta cutting nefir' Cheviot' and -overturned twice down, a thirty ■ foot bank. • There, .vfere jeleven passengers including .members of the Marlborough Basket Ball team one of whom • received, a broken . wrist. The rest had a remarkable escape. A relief car was sent. • } •y . NELSON COLONIST PASSES. r nelson, Sept. 2. The death' has; p.ccurred; 'of Henry ■aßigent one of'.thh, oldest born .resident of Nelson. ' of Nelson for seyeral terms and a member of. other local.,V|'tts -plfhminentl.v a.nd" timber industry; sihpe the? eariy, days.

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.', . "• : , DUNEt)IN,;SIept. 2..' Further evidence of. '.a';; large number of minor burglaries /which'.lately faaye been perpetratedin Dunedin;'. was', however; . coming i ji^the,. - Cbupt this morning palmer, who will shortly ifeylfc; gears'%;a£e ; pleaded guilty to' of; break!ng and entering dwellings and' stealing for the most part and',je>y6ll -Theoffences have. beeifj-conimitted within the last 2 months of the suffering householders was George P. J. Dickinson, ex-All Black, and a New Zealand representative cricketer represented by Mr A. C. Hanlon. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed. A SHOCKING DEATH. i ,; AUCKLAND, Stept. 2. , ; The charred bbdy qif Mrs Annie Bishop, widow of a constable recently deceased, was found on a ,vacant section near her home at Birkenhead this morning with an empty kerosene .bottle and a- box of matches nearby. *. • prom the appearance of .the. ground where the ‘body■ was -found yit seemed, that the woman'.:ha(f jnqde a, heap of: pine needles and- satqriited it with kerosene and fired it with o) match, i She had been in ill-health' siiipe tlie death of her husband a year ago. OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, Sept: 2; Obituary—George Boqtflower Davy, formerly Chief Judge of the Native Land Court at the residence,..Wadestown, aeta-t 94 years He arrived in New Zealand from Devonshire in the ship Indian Empire, in 1862. He was appointed Warden and Resident Magistrate at Thames in 1869, and,. District Land Registrar at' Auckland two year? later. Then yßegiatrar-Qe-neral lyjof: Lands in 1875, and Chief Judge of tjie Native Land jCourt. in 1894. ;-'IJe retired in 1904. . In 1863. he married Miss Liddell, of Auckland; Five members of the family survive. ,- j' . . MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept, 2. Four persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor-car overturned in shingle at Clarkville yestereve. Mrs Hodge received some head injuries. Peggy Harman, aged eight, granddaughter of Mrs Hodges, reqeived a dislocated hip. The driver was George Hodges, of Christchurch, who received minor injuries. Frederick Sincock, aged 43, sustained fractured ribs.