DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

SUDDEN DEATH

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 1

Daniel Deavoll, aged 71 years, a carpenter, employed by the New Zealand Shipping Company, dropped dead at six o'clock this evening at Lyttelton on leaving the steamer Idaho, on which ho had been working. Deavoll had .received medical attention for heart trouble.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

INVERCARGILL, Nov. 4

A sequel to the death in the Southland Hospital on September 13th last of Andrew John Mcßeath, who was thrown from a baker’s cart, when it collided at the intersection of Thabes rj-ieet- and Kelvin Hoad, with a motor-car driven by Roy Rankin Wallace, aged 19, was heard in the Police Court this morning, when Wallace was charged with negligently driving a., motor-car on September 13 1929, at Invercargill, thereby causing the death of Andrew John Mcßeath. The evidence of the witnesses at the inquest was read, and when the accused was asked to plead, counsel said that he proposed to ask that the information be dismissed on the grounds that there was no case to answer. The Magistrate, sitting as coroner, had expressed the opinion that there had not been enough evidence as to negligence on the accused’s part for him to express an opinion on that point. In order to put His 'Worship as Magistrate in the same position, it would be necessary for him to have the evidence of the companion, Pickfcrd, which, for some unaccountable reason, had not been brought forward iby the police. There would also be other witnesses. \fter hearing further evidence, the Magistrate decided to commit the accused for trial. Accused was then formally charged, and pleaded ‘‘not guilty.”

ART UNION WINNER, PAHIATUA, Nov. 5

Mrs Stone, winner of the Art Union, is a widow, and has latterly been employed as a housekeeper. She is an old resident of the district and has brought up a large family. She obtained a ticket through a Napier agency. She posted the butt direct to Auckland, otherwise she may have been too late.

INQUEST VERDICT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by Coroner McNeil, at an inquest on Edward Elton and his wife, victims of the tragic motor accident at Whiteman’s Valley Road on Sunday, October 27th. In Hie Coroner’s opinioiTp the'" evidence Irad not shown that blame was attachable to anyone.

OILFIELDS REPORT. GISBORNE, November 5. Taranaki Oil report—Gisborne No. 2 well derrick completed and erection of machinery in progress. The weather conditions are good. Kotuku No. I—Test hole caving in prevents ifurther progress. Preparing to make another test near same loc-a-turn.

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. INVERCARGILL, November o.

Giving a decision in the Quarterly Dividends cases in which David Neilson Johnston, of Dunedin, was faced with several charges of false pretences Magistrate Woodward, committed accused for trial, remarking that accused had made representations concerning the operation of the two companies, Quarterly Dividends and National House Purchase, and the processes by which dividends were produced. False pretences consists in representation that these operations are capable of continuing in the future for any considerable period to produce substantial benefits to the contributors, which accused promised. Accused who pleaded not guilty tvas admitted to bail of £2OO.

A HOTEL QUESTION. AUCKLAND, November 5

A. A. Paape, lessee of the Grand Hotel, Dunedin, a passenger from Sydney by the Mahepo, asked as to the accuracy of a report that Mount Cook Tourist Coy. had purchased an interest in the Grand tfotel, said there is no possibility of anything of the kind taking place. The original company was Mount Cook Motor Coy., which has recently been reconstructed, and has interests in Cargen Hotel, Auckland, and White Star Hotel, Queenstown, as well .as the chateau at Tongariro. It was stated that there was a possibility of the company forming a chain of hotels throughout the Dominion and that the Grand Hotel at Dunedin was one of them. ”

PROTEST AGAINST BREWERY LICENSE.

AUCKLAND, November 5

Eighty women marched this morning from the Baptist Church at Otahuhu to the new brewery at Otahuhu, for which a license was recently granted. The procession was preceded by a gathering in the church of over one hundred women and men offering a prayer for the success of their mission. The leader of the procession was Mrs Lee C'owie who carried a blue flag with a red cross in one corner, and her followers carrying more blue ribbon and a. white Hag, emblematic of the W.C.T.U. Crowds on the footpath passed remarks, sympathetic and otherwise. Workmen on one Jniilding cheered them lustily. Abreast of the brewery the processionists knelt. Airs Lee Cowie offered