DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

■R E- H EAR IN G CHAR GE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) TIMARU, October 3. It is understood that steps are being taken to secure the re-hearing of a charge of being unlawfully on the premises, for which Charles Alfred Denham, aged forty-one, was sentenced to one month’s gaol by Mr C. Orr-W’alker. S.M., on 'Thursday. 'The grounds for the application will be that certain facts were not disclosed at the hearing. A RIPE AGE. GREYMOUTH. October 5. Obituary.—Mrs Isabella Greenwood, aged 96 years. 'She was born in India and came with her parents to Motueka and Nelson in 1853. She was a cousin to the late Marquis of Salisbury, Premier of Britain.

Sisters surviving are Miss C. Gascoyne of Nelson, and Mrs H. Gascoyne . oi Wainiate. A surviving daughter is Mrs D. Tonnent of Hawkes Bay. The sons are Cecil of Sydney and Charles ot 'Wanganui. E 1) UC ATT () X A LISTS RIFF ER. OAMARU, October 5. Replying to Mr Renner's explanation, Mr Milner says as early as possible, on ■September 25 he made his position clear ito Renner when he refused the Federation's invitation to address a public meeting of protest at Wellington, and deprecated a premature demonstration. He telegraphed to both the Federation and Secondary Schools’ Association, which then substituted a policy oi sensational circularisation. Renner's circular predicted the devastating ventilation of secondary education and urged local meetings and deputations ot protest. So far as the Association was concerned in the view, he clearly defined that the attitude of the secretary has usurped the pres tlcntial rights and had dictated a. militant policy, based purely on surmise. GIRL SEVERELY BURNED. GISBORNE. October 4. A fifteen-vear-old girl, Janet Dunsmore, was reading in bed by the light of a candle, when the sleeve of her nightdress caught fire, and the girl was enveloped in flames. She was admitted to the Cook Hospital, where her condition is reported to be serious. OBITUARY. * f WELLINGTON, October 5. Private advice was received at Wellington of the death at Auckland of Mr I. Salek. prominent V’ellington citizen, Registrar of the Justices of the Peace Association and Coroner of the Wellington District' He was also well-known in howling circles throughout New Zealand. BODY FOUND. HAW ERA October o. The body of Waitkuku Milt a here, a Maori, aged 49. who previously resided at Pihama, was found hanging from a tree in a clump of native bush at Oeo yesterday. The body was suspended by ia piece of fencing. Matahere was a single man and was staying with his sister at the time of his disappearance three months ago. SAFE BLOWN. HAW 7 ERA, October 5. Awakened at 2,30 o’clock yesterday morning by the sound of an explosion, Constable Pidgeon, of Normanby, hastened to the railway station where he discovered that the new safe installed in the Postal Department ten days ago had been blown open with gelignite and cash contents removed. The safe contained only about 18s. This is the second time in three months that the safe has been blown.