DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

CLOAKROOM THIEF,

(By Telegraph—Preaß Association).

WELLINGTON, August 13.

Hugh Johnston, aged thirty-three, a labourer, who pleaded that his trouble was drink, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each of two charges of theft of articles left by ladies. in a cloakroom at a dance.

AN INQUEST

WANGANUI, Aug. 18

At the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Gladys Barrington Cromarty this morning before Mr J. H. Salmon, Coroner, a verdict that deceased met her death, about 3.30 on May 9, tire cause being collapse from a haemorrhage from an incised wound in the throat inflicted by Herbert Frederick Manley,

A CHILD INJURED,

WELLINGTON, Aug. 18,

Lost for several hours yesterday afternoon, James Eccles, aged 4, who lives at Wellington Road, Paekakariki, was discovered at 6.30 lying near the roadside toward the foot of the Paekakariki hill. He was notice ed by a passing motorist and taken to the hospital where he was found to be suffering from head injuries and concussion.

How the injuries were received is not clearly understood. Two theories are suggested. One is that he fell on the hillside and the other that he was struck by a motor car.

The boy was taken to Wellington hospital where his. condition early this morning was reported to be satisfactorv.

A COMING CONTESTANT,

DARGAVILLE, Aug. 18

It is stated on good authority that William Grounds, ex-Chairman of the Dairy Control Board,, will contest the Kaipara seat at the next general election in the Country Party’s interest.

GOLDEN WINGS ART UNION. DUNEDIN, Aug. 18

Of the £17,500 declared available from the Golden Wings Art Union, 37 per cent is allotted to Canterbury,;'33 per cent to Otago, and 30 per cent to Southland. Otago’s share will be devoted to the purchase of an aerodrome site oil the Ta'ieri and its improvement. ■

FATAL FIRE,

AT WELLINGTON HOTEL,

WELLINGTON, August 16.

Shortly after 11.15 o’clock this morning, a fire broke out In the Gresham Hotel, Lambton Quay. A border in the hotel, named Cameron, who went back to get his money, was suffocated. He was found on the second floor, with only hie singlet on, winch suggests that he was in bed when the fire started. The fire, which is thought to have started at the back of the building, did considerable damage before it was extinguished, It is believed that the deceased, Cameron, arrived by the south boat today.

THREE INJURED IN MOTOR.

GORE, August 16,

Three people were injured" when a car crashed into a telegraph pole at Waikoikoi this morning. William Spittle, the driver, suffered scalp wounds. ■Frederick Spittle sustained severe head injuries and Henry Gow facial cuts. The car swung off the road and was badly smashed. The injured man were taken to the hospital at Tapanui.

NATIVE FOUND SHOT,

TE KUITI, August 16

A native named Miatetu Paha was found shot in a bach three miles from Puhemeho, near Mangapehi yesterday afternoon. Apparently it was accidental. There are no particulars as to the cause of the accident, though it is reported that deceased had no trigger guard on his gun. The police and the Coroner have gone to the scene of the fatality.

WATERSIDER’S DEATH.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 17,

Thomas Edward Hudson, a watersider, who was seriously injured when working on the wharves in Lyttelton on Friday died at the hospital an Saturday afternoon. The medical evidence at the inquest to-day was that Hudson, when admitted, was paralysed from the neck downwards. The cause of death was a fracture of the spinal column,

V A BULLER TRAGEDY,

WESTPORT, August 17,

A man identified as Joseph Hayes, a stranger here, was found hanging to a rafter by the slings of his swag in an unoccupied hut on the loopline on Friday. He was in the hospital recently. An inquest will be held.

MAN WITH THROAT CUT

WELLINGTON, August 17

A man named Samuel MeColl, residing with his wife at 37, RTntoul Street, was admitted to the, hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from a cut throat. The wound was evidently inflicted with a razor and McColl’s condition is reported as being serious.

THE, TOTE TAX.

WELLINGTON Aug. 16,

In the course of a memorandum on the proposed totalizator tax sent to all members of Parliament by the New Zealand Sports Protection League, that body says: —“Reasonable deduo tion to make from the position are that the increased tax will, in the long run, produce little, if any, additional revenue for the State. It will seriously harass the clubs, the gratuitous ta,x collectors for the State. . It will provide a .bonus of per cent, to those engaged in a business already sufficiently lucrative for them to take the risk of defying law. The best method to curtail illegal betting, and maintain the State revenue is for the Government to pass the Gaming Amendment Bill now before Parliament ”

NASH MOTORS BURGLED,

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 18,

Burglars oyer the week-end entered thb premises of Nash Motors in Oxford Terrace and stole £SO in cash in addition, to a 'quantity of cheques,