DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

GELIGNITE. EXPLODES. FIVE MEN INJURED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WAIROA, Sept. 30. Five Public Works men, employed at Lake Waikaremoana road works, were warming gelignite in a tent on Saturday last when a premature explosion occurred. All were injured and ' three are in hospial. Richard Dalhouse is suffering from extensive •burns. The hand was shattered and arm amputated, his condition being serious. George Leckie, left leg injured. Joseph Goldsmith, abrasions to body and face. The other two were .slightly hurt.

BLACKBALL MINE IDLE. GREYMOUTH, Sept. 30. The Blackball mine is idle to-day. It is understood the Union dispute about dues, several members refusing to pay, others declining to work with them. SUDDEN DEATH. AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. Charles Henry Morbray, 73, 1 single, a resident of Birkdale, collapsed and died in Queen Street on his way to the Auckland Hospital.

INCOME TAX RETURNS. GREYMOUTH, Sept. 30. AVinton Gore Porter, of Reefton ahd Wellington, for failing to supply income tax returns was fined the minimum of £2 with costs at the , Greymouth Court this morning.

THEFT CHARGE

GREYMOUTH, Sept. 30.

Daniel Casey, who entered a shop and stole a fur coat valued at £4O, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months. He was ordered to take out a prohibition order. The police stated Casey had been convicted four times at Greymouth' since April 1928, for stealing overcoats.

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. Auckland candidates for Rhodes scholarships.—P. -C. Minins, 8.A., (well known Rugbyite), A. H. McDonald, 8.A., and J. S. Watt. They are old boys of Auckland Grammar School. MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE. HAWHRA, Sept. 30. Frederick Charles Adlam and Frederick Rye, farm-hands, came into a head-on collision when riding motor cycles on a country road near Mangatoki at eight o’clock on Saturday night. 1 Adlam was hospitalled • suffering from concussion and Rye escaped injury.

, WORK FOR; UNEMPLOYED. DANNEVTRKE, Sept. 30. The Pemier’s promise to find work for all unemployed in five weeks was referred to Mr Ransom, Minister otf Public Works, who said' at present he could not say anything until Cabinet, which had before it several pro r posals for Relieving unemployment, had put forward its schemes. . He added that when certain railway authorisations under consideration were put through, this should absorb .most of the unemployed labour.

FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. Alfred James Barker, aged 36, married, was found dead, at his home in Grey Lynn with a gas tubing in his mouth.’ He was a watersider, and was recently unemployed. DEATH FROM FALL. AUCKLAND, Sept. 30.

Daniel Sheehan, need 34, married, died at the hospital from head injuries caused by a fall from a tramcar. A BURGLARY. WAIROA, September. 30. Flint’s tobacconist shop was broken into sometime yesterday and about £9 stolen. An attempt was made to enter the music shop of the same owner, but it was unsuccessful. The police are investigating, but no arrest has been so far.

THREE YEARS HARD LABOUR AUCKLAND. Sept. 30.

These frauds were particularly cruel, and T have no faith in your statement that you will make restitution, stated Judge Smith to-day in sentencing Wifred Harold Adams, 28, to three years’ hard labour for false pretences and obtaining credit Zy fraud. Adams had pleaded guiltv to duping a woman and taking from her £337, telling her his Uncle Charlie, in Remuera. was about to give him money to start in business.