DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

CROSSING TRAGEDY.

(By Telegraph—PreM Association).

AUCKLAND, July 3.

j Fatal injuries were received by , Robert Dunstaii, aged 77, of Grey r Lynn, when he was struck by a train at a pedestrian railway crossing at Mount Albert this afternoon. Severe head injuries were sustained, and he was dead when a doctor arrived. Tile train was travelling slowly, and the , deceased was not seen from the en- . S>‘ie. MANY THEFT CHARGES. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 3. A sequel to a cross-country chase and arrest by Detective Kearney was the appearance in Court to-day of George Albert Hedley Nixon, aged 34, on. five charges. The charges were that he was found on the New Plymouth Golf O.ub’s premises without lawful excuse, the theft of one pound from Thomas Wilson; theft at Hawera ol five pounds, the property of T. O’Callaghan, a Golf Club member; theft at Hawera of four pounds, the property of William Batchelor; and the theft at Taka-puna, Auckland, of an assortment of clothing and fancy articles valued at £ll 11s 6d, the property of Leonice Elize Wiseman. A remand till Wednesday was granted. Further charges are pending in connection with the Hawera Golf Links and at Auckland. : WATERSIDE® INJURED. GISBORNE, July 4, While engaged loading stock a wa.tersider, George Gilham, overbalanced and fell on the rail of the Parera thence ;to the water suffering a broken arm. A plucky rescue was peformed by a young ma.n named Marshall, who dived and bronghlGilbam out on a papa ledge. The injured man was a non-swimmer, A SEROUS CRIME. WELLINGTON, July 4. -;Mr Page. S.M/ inflicted a fine of £SO, in default three months on Ralph Antonovich for administering a dangerous drug to a young girl. Antonovich is a labourer, 45 year s of age. He made the acquaintance of the girl, who is seventeen, through his own daughter, who is twenty. He started to take her out according to the police story, and giving hei\ a drug in coffee and soft drinks. Later lie used a hypodermic syringe ’and she was hos-pitalled for fourteen days. The Magistrate remarked, that it would be difficult to imagine a case worse in characteristics, He said apparently the drug was administered with an ulterior object in view. Antonovich is a widower. CHILD DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. Yesterday afternoon, the daughter aged two years, of B. Hare, of Glennnirk disappeared, The body* was discovered about half an hour later in Glenmark Creek, near the homestead. All efforts at restoration proved unsuccessful. THEFT OF £ISOO LAUNCH. ( MAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. .

WELLINGTON, July 2-

Donald M’Pherson Stuart. 22, who was arrested at D’Urville Island for the theft of a lunch, to-day pleaded guilty to stealing the launch, benzine and fishing gear to the total value of £ISOO, the property of Guiseppi Lamaccliia, of Island Bay, and to five other counts of theft of benzine and other goods from other launches at Island Bay, these having been taken by wav of fitting the launch out for a long trip. The owner stated that it had cost over £7O to get the craft back from Nelson. Stuart was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. MILITARY TRAINING. WELLINGTON, July 4. A Dunedin remit that this federation is opposed to any suggestion of aholishiiyg military training in the Dominion led to a lengthy discussion at the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation Conference to-day. The view was expressed that some form of compulsory training was essential and a resolution setting out the willingness of the manufacturers throughout New Zealand to continue to afford facilities for necessary instruction was carried nnanitnouslv.