DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

vH o i .11 uli (. nCtl Ml U*o I ..Ml INCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July, 18. I'uo condition of Edward Hammond, who was wounded on Tuoscta-y night, is unchanged. Doctors, will he unable to extract the bullet. t he police behove that a young man fired tiie shot and that he had a companion itiug outside. Au examination c . ■ linger prints is being -made, a.nd it. will probably disclose whether the perpetrator j s already known to the police. POWER. CUT OFF. CHRISTCHURCH, July 18. Y> itli. continuous heavy rain, the Canterbury rivers are rising rapidly. I’or a time this morning all power was tut off from Lake Coleridge owing to snow .near Acheron River, where the worst possible conditions prevail. Later one of three lines was repaired and that is still functioning. FLOOD UNDERMINEES A GARAGE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 18. V Geraldine report istates that the Waihi River is in flood. It- undermined a garage on the bank precipitating six cars into the water and five are believed to be totally lost. A house in the vicinity had to he evacuated bv a. man. his wife and family during the night. TRAWLER’S GREW STRIKES. 1 . AUCKLAND, July 18. With a posse of police within easy call, the trawler James Cosgravo is ready to go to sea with free labour, the crew having struck work at seven o’clock this morning as a protest against what they consider t-o be adverse conditions of employment. The strike is the result of a secret ballot taken amongst unionists of the Sanford Company’s four trawlers. The main bone of contention is regarding shore leave.