VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS

•T TELEGBAPH—PEE PEESS ABSOCIATIOHT. DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. WELLINGTON, January 28.—Official advice has been received in- Wellington that Sir Hartmann Wolfgang, First Assistant Under-secretary of State for the Colonies and Permanent Secretary to the Imperial Conference, will visit New Zealand this year, arriving at the Bluff on June Bth, and leaving London next week. He visits South Africa and the Australian States, reaching the Bluff from Hobart. Sir Hartmann after visiting the principil New Zealand centres will leave Auckland for Vancouver om June 27th. CLOSER SETTLEMENT. THAMES, This Day.—Large areas of Native*"Ss.'nd on the Hauraki Plains have been purchased by Auckland and southern syndicates, and will be cut up fol> closer settlement'. The applications fon the Hauraki pastoral leases, which haye no connection with the Hauraki Plains lands, but refer to pastoral rights over auriferous areas, are increasing. Soma confusion exists regarding the two clasuea of land named. Some intending settlers travelled long distances to find that they had misunderstood the position. THE NGATORO. WELLINGTON, January 28.—The local manager of the Blackball Coal Company says that there is no truth in the statement appearing last week in the Sydney shipping list that the Byrnes Company, Ltd., had purchased the collier Ngatoro, for the Sydney-Newcastle trade. BOY DROWNED. FOXTON, This Day.—Stanley William Gay, years of age, fell off the jetty ;it the Heads yesterday while playing. There was a. strong run out at the time and the body was earned out to sea. It has not yet been recovered. Several playmates witnessed the accident. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. DUNEDIN, This Day.—The "Star" has authority for stating that Mr. Hosking, K.C., of Dunedin, has been offered, and has accepted a seat on the Supreme Coui't Bench. The matter of the Presidency of the Arbitration Court, which becomes vacant on Mr. Justice Sim relinguishing that office is proportions if the hygienic facts were unsettled as yet. PRISONER ESCAPES. NAPIER, This Day.—Ralph Peterson, committed to the Supreme Court for sentence for assaulting a constable by striking him on the head with a bottle, escaped from custody whilst being conveyed to Wellington. As the train was pulling out of Porirua station he eluded the warder and leapt from the train. Peterson is 23 years of age, very small of stature,', with flaxen hair, and freely tattooed on ,the arms. RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE. ' WELLINGTON, This Day—The. steamer Achlishtei'', from Calcutta, was released io-day from, quarantine, and commenced discharging her ttiaF" cargo. ,