DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

FATAL BLASTING ACCIDENT.

WAIROA, Nov. 12

A single middle-aged man, named W. Sullivan, who recently arrived at Gisborne, was admitted to the hospital at noon suffering from severe head injuries, the result of a blasting accident this morning at Waikokopu Bluff, on the east coast railway works. He died an hour later.

TOUR OF ENGLAND

CHRISTCHURCH, November 13

At the Dominion Cricket Conference, a resolution was passed approving of the Management Committee’s action in provisionally accepting an invitation to tour England in 1931. A motion also left the finance Question in the hands of the committee.

FOUND DEAD

HASTINGS, November 13,

Edith Sharp, wife of James Sharp, lately in business as an auctioneer, was found dead in bed night.

GENEROUS GIFTS

GISBORNE, Novembet "3.

As a parting gift to his native town which was re-visited after an absence of eleven years, W. Barrington Miller, well known in theatrical circles arid now a resident of London, left with trustees the sum of £I,OOO to be applied for the advancement of various sports, also trophies valued at £320, which he had purchased in London, as a gift for local sports bodies.

BANKRUPT IN TROUBLE;,

GTSBORNE, November 13,

A meeting of the creditors of the bankrupt estate of Ellis Fenwick Martin, a pastry cook, after a critical examination of bankrupt’s affairs, passed a resolution : “ In view of the fact that bankrupt obviously incurred debts without reasonable expectation of paying same and has apparently not kept proper books, the facts of the case be placed before the Crown Prosecutor with a view to proceedings being taken under the penal clauses of the Bankruptcy Act.”