DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

MR BLACK, M.P., n

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NELSON, May 17

Mr G. C. Black, member for Motueka, interviewed on las return from Rotorua, had no comment to make on tile present political situation. “As the office of the Government Whip,” said Mr Black, “ was conferred upon me when the United Party took office by Sir Joseph Ward, personally i have deemed u only right and proper to now resign sucii position, and, 1 have, accordingly sent in my resignation to my retiring leader.

-MURDER CHARGE

WANGANUI, May 17

A large- crown assembled at the Court this morning when Frederick Herbert Manley appeared on remand on a cnarge of he murder of Gladys Cromarty counsel agreed to a remand till June Old. when the preliminary hearing lakes dace.

MAN KLLLED

WELLINGTON,V May 18.

As the Daylight- Limited express was entering Otaki on tlie way to Wellington, a man named Arthur Robert 'Peeling O’Hagen, of No. 74. Kent Terrace-, Wellington, aged 29 years, and formerly -of the imperial Army, fell from the train and all of the first class carriages passed over lnm. . The man h,ad been a passenger cm the train for many miles. The train was' founding a curve at the time. He was identified by h.is' clothing .only. The body was absolutely unrecognisable. His mother resides in India, and two brothers are in Wellington. The deceased once worked in a bank in Otaki.

DI PTH ERL A OUTBREAK

AUCKLAND. May 18

An outbreak of diphtheria has occurred at Pokeno and nine people, the majority children, have contracted thedtiscias©: Six have been, brought to Vuckland Hospital. The officers of the Health Department, who have visited Pokeno, say the; •picurniic commenced at a gathering of; children held in t-ho toivnship just before the school holidays began. Practically all the children in the district attended the function. Only two. families are affected.

CAR KILLS OLD MAN. Auckland,* May is

William John Humby,' aged 68, of Ponsoijby, was killed through being Ki.ocu.ed down by a motor car in Pon-so-noy on Saturday night. He had lighted from a tramoar, and was, crossing the road when he was struck oy the motor ear arid was killed instantaneously. Later, detectives ar-; rested jthe driver of the car on a; cbaigb of negligent driving so. as to, cause- death.

Cm STRIKES CYCLIST. ;f MASTERTON, May 18.

ThomSs Prout, a butcher, of fvla&terton, wins seriously injured on Saturday night as the result of a collision between a, cycle he was riding and the motor ciir driven by- Terence Falloon, of Bideford. The accident occurred on Uie northern approach, about 7.80o’clock? "-.The driver of the car,, it is stated, did not know anything of striking Prout until his windscreen was shattered, and he felt a bump, Prout is suffering from severe injuries, and was Still unconscious to-day.

A GUN TRAGEDY

NEW PLYMOUTH, May 18

Eric Mace, aged 16, eldest ton of Wilfred Mace, of Omata, was shot dead while hare shooting at Puniho to-day. He and a party were crossing a creek. He stepped across and a gun was passed to - him. The trigger caught in the bank, and Mace received the charge in the right chest.

CIRCULAR SAW ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON, May 18. The thumb and first finger of his left hand were amputated when George Graham, who resides at No. 3 Strat.V haven Avenue, Miramar-, caught? his hand on a circular saw on Saturday

morning. He was taken to the hospital, ...and is improving steadily.

LORRY CAPSIZES. TE AROHA, May 17

A heavily-loaded three-ton lorry, the property of H. A. Julian, of Auckland, was travelling from Te Kuiti towards Te Aroha this afternoon, and in turning a corner at the town boundary it skidded and capsized, and J. Green had his skull fractured and lies unconscious at Porara Hospital. Two other occupants, Richard F. Punks and McCauley are also in the hospital with scalp,injuries caused by flying glass.

YOUNG MAN’S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, May 19.

Arnold John Bennett, aged 21,. died in the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday as a result it is helieved, of injuries received in a collision on August 1929 when he was riding a motorovole. He was treated for a fractured skull, and then discharged but’ was re-admitted on April 18 with an abscess that was pressing on the. brain.