DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

PBIME MINISTER

.SUFFERING FROM INFLUENZA

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Sept. 11

The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph AVard, is still confined to his bed as the result of an attack of influenza which developed on Friday evening. This afternoon it was reported that Sir Joseph would not leavb his apart-, nuints till Saturday. He had hoped to get up to-day and expressed a strong desire to do so this morning, but his doctor’s orders were against it. The Prime Minister’s condition is by no means serious, but as the weather is bitterly cold Sir Joseph cannot be allowed to run the risk of a relapse. woman' COMMITTED. •AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. In the Police Court, Jessie Morris, aged 40, married, described as a dressmaker, pleaded “not guilty” to a charge of unlawfully using an instrument on a married woman residing !a.t Kaio, North Auckland, at Auckland, on April 28 last. The accused was committed for trial. TRAMS CURTAILED. WANGANUI, September 12. At a special meeting of the City Council to-night, the retrenchment of sixteen men, who have been transferred to the Engineers’ Department following a curtailment of the tram service, was discussed. Finally it was decided to ask Mr M. Cable, Tramways’ Manager, of Wellington, to report and make recommendations. FATALLY BURNED. • DUNEDIN, September 12. Agnes. Rebecca Goldsmid, a single woman, aged 29 years, died at her parents’ home, 5 Grant Street, at an early hours this morning. In April last the deceased was badly burned by a kettle of boiling water and bad been confined to her bed ever since, and during the last three weeks she gradually became worse. An inquest will be held to-morrow morning. MR R. SEMPLE, M.P. RESIGNS UNION SECRETARYSHIP. WELLINGTON, September 12. Mr R, Semple, M.P., has resigned the Secretaryship of the General Labourers’ Union.

Mr P. Butler has been elected to the position in succession to Mr Semple. Mr Semple states that when , elected to Parliament, he resigned, but he was unanimously requested to continue in office. He consented on the condition that he should draw no set salary. He had worked for nine months with out pay. He was now obliged to reconsider the position owing to illhealth.

The Union has adopted a resolution regretting Mr Semple’s resignation, thanking him for his services, and expressing continued confidence in him. The Union has also presented a cheque for his nine months’ services to Mr Semple.

A BABY DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, September 13. William Waterton Gibson, a sixteen-months-old infant, was found drowned in a creek at Hon Hay Road yesterday, it is thought that tlie child toddled to the edge of the creek and fell in. MORE INCENDIARISM. CHRISTCHURCH, September 13. Another incendiarist .fire occurred last evening when an unoccupied old house in Hargood Street, AVoolston, was destroyed. There was no insurance. The owner is W. Brimms, who is in the North Island. MISSING MIGRANTS. WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. A few days before the Rotorua arrived the Salvation Army Immigration Department received a request from the Cambridge (Waikato) branch on behalf of a man named M’lntyre, to meet four young, children and look after them till he arrived. He said that he had not enough money for his fare, but was tramping through. An Army officer accordingly met the steamer and was astonished to find representatives of the Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Anglican churches all on the same mission in response to. similar requests, also that no children of the name were aboard.

; Major Middlemiss, the Army officer concerned, says that he believes the request is hoiia fide and that the children missed the steamer. He ,had heard that M’lntyre had been taken ill, and was in the Hamilton hospital.