DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 March 1925, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

..... (Per Press Association.) ■ . /POISONED BY GAS .> .-,fi7’ AUCKLAND, March 26. '.A middle aged main, D. Wishart, was'found dead in bed last night. The circumstances indicate suicide by gas poisoning. ■vX KILLED -BY TRAM. ' : > V■ 1 .. WELLINGTON,. March 25'. . William Manton, single, aged 48, a labourer, was knocked down by a tram’nvhen crossing the road outside the .Opera. House. He was taken to the Hospital at 4 p.m., but died Jive minutes later. , \ POVERTY BAY ROADS. GISBORNE, March 25. The Minister of Public Works, Mr Coates, arrived- this- ‘afternoon, and spent a busy evening with deputations on local matters, dealing mainly with tile expediting of road work to give access for the back block settlers. Mr Coates is to leave early intlic morning./ FOUND SHOT ■ 1 * GISBORNE, March 26. t .A./'T. Higley, ex-hotelkeeper, recently farming, was found dead at Ormond this morning, with a gun beside the body. The head was partially blown off, the., gun muzzle evidently having been placed in then mouth. Deceased was married with a’ -family. • P. AND T. DELEGATES. WELLINGTON, March 25. The results,of the postal ballot for Wellington representatives on the P. arid T. Executive were as follow :—' ’Postal delegate : H/ M. Patrick 211, G. B. Brown 158, J. Burton . Telegraph delegate.—T. I- 1 . Falconer 255, W. L. Scaddoii 61. Mr : Patrick replaces the sitting delegate, while" Air Falconer has increased his majority.

WOMEN SHOPLIFTERS.

/ < WELLINGTON, March 24. At! the Police Court to-day, Annie Lajsen, aged 44, liiarried, was senteilce’d to three months’ gaol, to be followed by three months’ reformative treatment, on charges of. shoplifting. Agnes Hussey, aged 25, on similar charges, was remanded for tire proba- \ tibn officer’s report. >.-.>■ —_l" . . f ■ M ANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. . •/ ' NEW PLYMOUTH, March 26. 'John Thomas Martin/against whom a qharge of murder’ was laid in connection with the death of a. Tad named Kendrick at Stratford, on March 18, was brought before 'the 'Magistrate’s ■Court to-day, when'the charge was re- ♦ duced to manslaughter and a remand granted to Stratford'on March 3d ■ Kendrick was picked on the road in a dying condition, his injuries appar--4 ently being due to a collision with a ■ mjotor car. ‘

■ FARMERS AND POLITICS; •' ■' ' -MASTERTON, March 25. ■At a meeting of the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of the Fanners’ Union to-day, a non-political policy was adopted, it being agreed that AVairara.pa' would' hold to the motto of the Union—Principle, not Party; and intended to hold the Dominion Executive . Wit. It whs stated that members were resigning through the inroads of politics, which, however, were (Unfilled mostly to the Auckland branches. A resigning member expressed the opinion that Mr Polson was favouring the attitude of the Aucklanders, which, if so, spelt disaster for the Union elsewhere. . • THIEF UP A TREE. < AUCKLAND, March 26. Reginald John Massey, 21, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to two charges of breaking entering and theft, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In one case, a boarding house keeper stated that lie was awakened by a' noise at 2 ami. 1 , and saw a man’s feet under the bed. Hq ordered the intruder to come out. Accused replied: “Put your hands up, and I will.” Accused then bolted, with witness in pursuit. Accused climbed . a tree, witness and his dog following. Boarders watched beneath the tree, till Hie • police arrived, and Massey was taken into custody.

A “QUACK” REMEDY. WELLINGTON, March 24. Donald Campbell, a salesman; was fined £5 and costs, ft;r selling lozenges composed of charcoal, sugar and gum, and publishing statements concerning a, drug'-likely to deceive the public. 'I lie Crown Prosecutor said the' advertisement alleged that the lozenges were made from the juice of an Indian tree, and would cure the worst case bl goitre while patients slept; also that it would cure pttmaine poisoning anh indigestion. The cost of a box of 60 lozenges was about 1/6 and it sold for 20/-. Defending counsel said that the cost of advertising the remedy was 12/6, which made the total cost 14/-. llio Magistrate commented 1 ha? person with defendant’s imagination deserved a better fate than to be prosecuted for his “cure.” • > X, ■ ' A RATING DISPUTE. , WELLINGTON, March 26. Under powers contained in uie Tiiharii Harbour Board Act, 1876, and Amendment Act 1881, the Tunaru Harbour Board constructed a breakwater running from the shore for ..somte distance, for the purpose of protecting the basin for shipping. ( Shingle settled on the south side of ; the. i breakwater, and raised a large portion of the old’sea bed above high water mark, part of -which is used by the Harbour’-Board for harbour purposes, and part is for lease and part is unoccupied. • Ihe Court of Appeal is engaged in hearing an appeal from the decision of Justice Adams, who decided that parts of the reclaimed allotments open for leasing and the unoccupied, are rateable. The Tlmaru Harbour

Board, as appellant, maintains that the land which has vested in it is harbour work,’’ within the definil ion of that term in the. Harbour’s A r t .1908. The Tirnaru Borough . Council, ;;s respondent, relics oil the - decision in the Wellington City Coun- < cil versus the Wellington Harbour Board GO N.Z.L.B. 534). and contends I hat while tho term “work” includes reclamation of land, such reclaimed land must be for harbour purposes, and not simply an endowment before being exempt from rates. , . Decision was reserved.