DOMINION STEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1930, Page 6

DOMINION STEMS.

DEFAMATION CHARGE

L Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright

AUCKLAND, April 14

Louis Alfred Silson, gardener by occupation and a Deacon of the Pentecostal Church of New Zealand, 'otherwise known a.s the Assemblies ol God, was to-day fined C 5 and costs C2 l&s on the charge under the Marriage Act. The prosecution was the first ever hoard under the Marriage Amendment Act. Magistrate Hunt said that Silson in a letter .sent to eomplaiiitants isaid : “wo have no further fellowship with Mr and Mrs Hawkins under present conditions” Mr Hunt traversed the evidence and said:—“‘Now this coming fro/n a spiritual adviser to religious minded people like Hawkins must be very distressing and disturbing and is the very mischief the Act was passed to prevent.” As it was the first prosecution the penalty will not he heavy, although the offenders are liable to £IOO.

OBITUARY.

WELLINGTON, April 14

At the age of seventy years, the Right Rev. Monsignor John McKenna passed away to-night at St. Patrick’s Presbytery Mastcrton,, after a long illness. He was for many years a wellknown and well-beloved figure in the AVnirarnpa. district, having been appointed to minister of spiritual needs of St. Patrick’s Parish. Masterton, in the late eighties of last century.

JOHN MATTHEW KING

AUCKLAND, April 12

Mr John Matthew King, aged sixtyeight, formerly Commissioner of Taxes died this morning at his residence at Takapuijp. He was a famous Wellington Rugby forward in the ’eighties.

P. R. WADDY

WELLINGTON, April 12

'The deatli is announced of Mr P. R. Wnddy. a well-known law lecturer, and author of legal textjbooks, aged fiftynine.

OBITUARY

WELLNIGTON, April 15

Obituary.—Malcolm Ross, aged 98 years. He was a well known journalist who was official representative with the New Zealand Forces during the War.

SERIOUS MOTOR SMASH

THREE MEN INJURED

PALMERSTON NORTH, April 13. A serious motor smash occurred at Mount Stewart on Saturday evening, when Archie Hickey, on a motor-cycle, and a car containing a party of five footballers, driven by Joseph Evans, collided. The tlircg, niosj; concerned were removed to tlie hospital—Hickey, with both jaws and one leg broken ; Evans, with a broken arm, and Phillip Gerald Fitzgerald, with shock. Details of how the . accident occurred are meagre at present.

11 US 15AND AND WIFE:KILLED

WELLINGTON, April 13

Norman John Cook, a Johnsonville groom - , and his wife have died as a result of a motor accident on f he Ngahauranga (Jorge Hoad about 2.4 b this afternoon.

Two fivo-seater ears collided at a right angled bend and Cooks’s car went over the hank and was completely wrecked, ending its career in the stream at the bottom.

Mrs Cook sitting beside her husband, who was driving, was killed instantly ,and Cook sustained a, fracture of the ha.se of the skull, a broken breast hone and a fracture of the rig’ - dying in hospital at 4.30. Tii > two (hi!.lren, Joan, aged eight.

a - d William, aged: seven who occupied tl: > lac k 5.:,! were uninjured.

I.Ar.UU.I representatives

TO RELINQUISH OFFICE

CHRISTCHURCH, April 15

The offer of Labour representatives to relinguish the reins of office was accepted hy representatives of the Citizens Association at last night’s meeting of the City Council. Until the next meeting of the Council, however, all committees as at present constituted, will function and in the meantime a sub-committee will prepare recommendations ns to the presonnel of the committees.

ASSAULT CHARGE

AUCKLAND, April 12

Ernest William Armstrong, aged 49 years, an insurance agent, was charged to-day with assaulting his son, Leslie by attempting to cut his throat with a razor, and also with trespassing on his wife’s premises although separated Accused was remanded.

HOSPITAL. BOARD LEVY. WELLINGTON. Am-il to

The low made hv tlio Wellington Hospital Board for the current financial year is £77-.003, a decrease of £197:1 on the past year. Owing to an increase of nearly thirteen millions in the capital rateable value of Wellington City, the levy on the City Corporation is ;t!.l.7Si higher than foi Die last year, so that other local authorities ’ benefit, each having a decreased call.