DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

QUAKE FUND.

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, September 24

The Central Earthquake Fund now amounts to £123,777, but tliere are

large amounts from special race meetings and other sources still to come, which should bring it to over £l3-5,003.

THEFT CHARGE.

PALMERSTON N„ Sept. .24

Harry Blake, aged 26, a labourer, was i sentenced at the Magistrate’s Court to three months for theft of a shirt, gold tie pin, and overcoat. The accused was described as a canvasser and had been in the town for the last six weeks.

COMPENSATION CLAIM. * CHRISTCHURCH, September 24, A claim by Janies Wright, of Wright’s farm, near White’s bridge, on Waimakariri river for £16,641 against Waimakariri Hiver Trust'was heard to-day by the Compensation Court. At the same time the Court heard claims by Cordon Wolseley Wright and Ewart llolleston Wright (Wright’s sons) who alleged that leases to them by the father had been affected injuriously by the Trust’s operations and that they suffered loss in other ways.

DEATH FROM INJURIES

DUNEDIN. Sept. 24

James M. McDonald, aged 37, married, labourer, died at the Ownka Hospital yesterday as a result of injuries through heing crushed by a log at Tawauui on Sept. 20th.

BURGLARY CHARGE

BLENHEIM, September 2-4

Bruce Edwin, aged 18, wlio has been wanted 'for the past three months for a series of thefts, was arrested on Saturday in an unused wliare in the Sounds on charges of burglary from various Sounds residences. The police are still investigating. Accused was remanded for a week.

YOUNG WOMAN SUICIDES.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 24;

Fiora Hewitt, aged 20, a single woman employed as a domestic servant, was found dead in a bathroom at the residence of Mr L. A. Blackworth, Point Chevalier. She had previously expressed an intention to commit suicide, but last week she seemed so well that she. was supposed to have abandoned,, the^idea. Mr Blnokwortji, on hading the bathroom occupied for an undue time, arid getting'no reply to his call, burst open the door.’. The girl was in the bath dead; evidently from gas poisoning, the gas tap being on, and every air aperture blocked.'