DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

MAX FOUXI) DEAD.

fßy Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

IIEEFTON, June 10

A man named Donald McPherson, a labourer about fifty, working for tin* Public Works Department, was found dead in a hut at the I ..veil yesterday. The body was brought to Heel ton last night. It is rumoured there was i row among the party, and deceased •struck the back of his head on a stone when falling. An inquest was opened this morning for evidence of identification, and adjourned sine die.

INQUEST,

WELLINGTON. June 10.

The inquest did not reveal how Hicks, the old man who went for a walk on May 26th and was found drowned, got into the water, but the Coroner remarked on th t . fact that there was little protection about Evans Hay road in the vicinity of the patent slip, and the lighting was poor. ft was quite possible for a person, particularly if dazzled by the lights of motors, to walk into the sea. He suggests to the authorities to consider the better lighting of the road. .

DRUNKEN DRIVER.

HAMILTON, June 10.

“The public must be protected from this sort of tiling,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson in the Magistrate’s Court today in fining Alexander Mclnnes', aged 37 years, £lO and suspending his driver’s license for a year for driving a lorry in a state of intoxication. When returning home, defendant collided with and extensively damaged a car travelling in the opposite direction.

CONVICTION QUASHED

NEW PLYMOUTH, June j

In the Supreme Court the conviction,, under the Taranaki Counties’ joint by-law, of William R. Wright, for allowing a bull to be at large was quashed on appeal on the ground that lie was not in charge of the bull at the time.

_ Counsel for Egmont County sought that the conviction should be upheld under the Police Offences Act.

Mr Justice Blair said that without deciding whether any offence, was committed lie thought that the wrong man had been prosecuted.

WOMEN'S SOtQIAL . MOVEMENT

PROTEST AGAINST ART UNIONS.

WELLINGTON, June 10

The Women’s Social Movement forwarded the following resolution, to Hon. G. W. Forbes: —We have noticed that since the present Government came into power art unions have become more common in the Dominion and we wish to protest emphatically against this rqintroduiction, and to urge upon you advisability ot refusing all further permits. We do this in the interests, of the young people of the Dominion, They should have industry and not chance as their incentive to success.

A COURT SCENE

HAMILTON, June 10

When Selwyn Lloyd Bedell aged 28 years, motor mechanic was acquitted in the Supreme Court on a serious charge against a girl of 17 years, a sister of the girl who entered the well of the court as the fury retired, threw a hand bag with full force at the prisoner and was then sevsed with hysteria and escorted screeming loudly from the court..

BREAKING AND ENTERING

CHRISTCHURCH, June 10

Twentv-four charges, mostly alleging breaking, entering and theft at .surburban shops, were preferred today against Leslie Charles . Burke, Albert William Stanley Porter, Edwin Harold Gunther, Norman Edward Prince and Reginald Oscar Stewart. Three indictable charges against Burke, Porter, Gunther and Prince, relating to offences at Rangiora, were admitted by the accuseds, who were committed ifor sentence. The hearing is proceeding on the other charges.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

HAMILTON. June 10,

Kone Pairama, aged 45 years, wa« charged with attempted murder at the Supreme Court here to-day. Accused, who lives at Te Kuiti, wounded hi> nephew Timi Ahurangi. with a shot from a rifle, which the Crown alleged was fired deliberately. Evidence went to show that the two men had had differences and that the prisoner had been bullied by and was Mm id of Ahurangi. On the morning of the shooting, Ahurangi called, nt Pairama’s house for a dog. Pairama came to the dopr with a loaded rifle and pointed it at Ahurangi. A struggle followed for possession of the rifle which went off. The jury is asked to consider whether flip shooting was deliberate or accidental. When arrested accused • said : “It is murder because we quarrelled a few days ago and if I had not shot him he would have shot me.” The case is proceeding.