DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

FALSE PRETENCES. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright DUNEDIN, Sept. 23. Tn the Police Court Leonard Arthur (McKechnie Phelan was charged with obtaining credit for board and lodging at Wellington to the value of £lO by fraud. He was admitted to probation for three years, and prohibited from attending races or betting. He was also ordered to make restitution. INCOME TAX RETURNS. TIMARU, Sept. 26. At the Magistrate’s Court for bav'ing failed to furnish returns of income, Horace Broadhead, a builder, of Timaru, was fined £3 on the first charge and £2 on 'the second, and James Walter' Halliday, hotel keeper of Waimate, was’ fined £2. A DEMENTED'-MOTHER’S DEED. AUCKLAND, iSept. 25.The inquest into' the death of William Arran Cubis and Timothy Brian Cubis, four year 'old twins, who were found strangled qt their home at •Dominion Road- last month, was resumed before Mr Hunt S.M., Coroner. Dr Alexander Cumming, who was called to the house, soon after the tragedy, said that lie found the childFen’s.' bodies lying side by side on "a bed. Both of tlMm were fully dressed. ;Tlie dun ,on each was ruptured, while a silk stocking' lay alongside' each. ‘ He • applied artificial respiration to one but, respiration was not attempted on the other,; who had been dead.' for ' about an hour. The •cause of death in each case - was The inquest was adjourned . >'• V . y •;-"• ALLEGED ASSAULT. ■ FOXTON, September 26. .. An alleged sandbagging’is reported to have occurred at' Nyes flaxmill yesterday morning. A Christchurch wofnan Mrs Hedberg, engaged ; ih experimenting with, a flax bleaching process, was allegedly - sandbagged as. she stepped from a workroom. Her injuries iOCy not of a senous nature.! The police are investigating. . • ’’ REMARK ABT E ESCAPE. . ; CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 26, , A remarkable collision occurred on Cam Bridge at Kaiapoi this morning when a Ford car coming from a sharp corner, struck the Oxford-Christ-, church bus containing thirty, passengers, a heavy blow, on the side. The. i'ms swerved across the bridge and hit the posts, tearing away the railing. Then it jammed a motor cyclist. Harold Harwood against a post. Harwood had a miraculous escape. ‘ He was thrown over the rail of the bridge and landed on the bank 'below suffering only a few bruises. The bus finished with the right front wheel hanging over the river which was ten feet deep. No, one else was hurt. ,1 . . . ''' The Ford car was. badly damaged,' but the bus was not severely. PIG - BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION. A RESOLUTION. PALMERSTON N., Sept. 26. The Executive of the ManawatuDroua Pig Breeders’ Association discussed the fishiness in bacon and resolved to send a 1 letter to the Meat Board regretting the report had been published before the matter was thor-. ougiily investigated. ; DIVORCE CASE. FURTHER EVIDENCE AUCKLAND,'. September 26. • Mr Justice Smith heard further evidence to-clay on the divorce petition, John Percival Smith versus Beatrice Smith aud Joseph Archibald McClean. McCleari said in evidence it was arranged he should marry Mrs Smith and provide a home lor her so that Smith could leave the district. He was willing to mairy Mrs Smith till recently, when he saw things in a different aspect. His Honour reserved his judgment remarking ,thnt the case contained some unusual features.