DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

A TRAGEDY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. Herbert Edwin Le Grove, aged fiftyfive years, formerly of the Hansard Stall was found dead a his residence at Tinakori Hoad yesterday morning. At the inquest, before Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M., the Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased died from gas poisoning, .self administered while in a depressed mental condition. MUSIC-TE ACH EILS’ CON EERENCE WELLINGTON, Jan 27. Tlie annual conference of the Music Teachers’ Association opened this morning. Mr Robert Parker was reelected President. The desirability of affiliation with the English body was mentioned by the President in his opening remarks. A proposal that in future the length of the conference he extended to include lectures and discussions on musical subjects and a wide embracing programme of performances was approved. Local societies are to be asked to express.a preference as to the time of the conference. A BIG FISH. AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. .Mr J. Mowlein President, of the Tauranga Deep Sea Fishing Club, lis''ing off .Mayor Island, yesterday landed a striped marlin, weighing 8201bs, the largest ever caught there. BURGLAR CAUGHT. DANNEVIRKE-, January 28. Two burglars who had broken into Culliford’s Norsewood store at three a.m. dynamiting the safe and disturbed the owner living nearby.- He gave chase to one man who outstripped him. The other Culliford felled with a Maori paddle. 'lnen he returned to the shop and handed him over the police. Nothing was taken. The other man is still at large. FLOWER SHOW. CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. The National Flower Show was opened to-day at King Edward Barracks by Sir Heaton Rhodes. There was a large attendance and the exhibition is magnificient in all sections, expecially floral and fruit displays, on a' scale never seen here previously. In addition were /Collection of New Zealand plants, tropical fruits and flowers, and alpine flowering plants, with various competitive sections. JUDGE’S COMMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. “One paragraph is scandalous’ as it makes an unwarranted and unfounded attack 011 the Magistrate,” said Judge Adams to Counsel For the New Zealand Sheep Farmers Agency in the Supreme Court to-day when. Counsel applied for the addition of two clauses to an amended statement of a claim, supporting the application for a writ of Prohibition, the latter clause of which suggested prejudice on the part of the Magistrate, Mr' E. D. Mosley. Defendants were Mr Mosley and Mr Charles Hill, formerly of Burnham, and plaintiffwished to set aside a judgment, dealing with threshing charges. The Judge refused to allow the addition of the two clauses, and dismissed the application for a writ of prohibition.