DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[flY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN EX II f BTTTOX. DUNEDIN, April. 9. At a very large meeting of representative citizens, held to-night, a project to hold an exhibition in Dunedin in 1925-20 was supported with great enthusiasm. A provisional committee was set up to take the necessary steps to formulate the details of an Exhibition Company. The Committee was authorised to draw up a report, ami th:* is to be submitted to a public meeting at the earliest po-.-iMo dal.'. The question of whether tin- exhibition will be an Impel ini or uii international one, was held over, pending a reply from the Conference of Manufacturers’ Ass vinlions. Air AY. C. Burt. President of the local Alanufaeture’x’ A-sociatioii. said he was strongly of opinion that, in the interests of the trade within the Empire movements, the exhibition should lie an Imperial one. NEW SHIRRING SERVICE. WELLINGTON. April 9. The Chuugwbn Navigation Coy., of Hongkong, proposes to inaugurate services of passenger and cargo boats trom China to Australia and South American ports, calling at New Zealand on route. The Hist sicamet proposed is the twin screw v--el '‘l.iugmnu." of 0181 mis. burning od fuel. She is due at M cllingr.on in the latter half of April. CUSTOMS C'OAII'TROI.LER. WELLINGTON. April 9. Ah G. Craig. L.C.AI., has been appointed to succeed Air \\ . R. .Montgomery C.8.E.. who is retiring from the ]>( sitioa of ( omntroller ol Custom.on June 30th. Mr Craig Inis had a successful official and educational career. He was educated at Boys' High School, Dunedin, ami later at A ictoria University C'i liege. Wellington. He wu.s appointed m a cadetship in the Customs at Tiiiiar.u, alter passing tne Junior Cit il Solve e examination. MAN .MISSING. WAIKOA. April 9. A young marinil man. George \\ MID. residing in Erasertowu. tailed to return from the river yesterday. A search was made, resulting in the tindmg of his clothes on the bank. It is feared that tfie man has been drowned. A search for him In-dav proved fruitless. LOUD EXPLOSIONCHRISTCHURCH. \pnl Residents of l.ytlelu n wore awakened about one o'clock this morning by what tli y thought in I e a tremendous thunderclap, but which was hi reality tlie explosion of ;t Iraiisluniior at Diamond Harbour. Ibe electric c.utIT'nt comes in there at IMHO veils, and is reduced to 259. Lightning struck the high tension side of the trauslormer and an explosion followed, the hgai s going out at tlie same time. Ihe concussion caused some ol tlie houses in the vicinity to rock alarmingly, '.'specially that occupied by Mr W . C. Cleary.

The full extent of D’c dTimage Ims not yet been a u.-rtained. but tlie 1 ranlornier. which luv been destroyed, v. L cost between LTS ami £BO to repla.e. ELECTIONS AND THE R.I’.A. CORE. April 10. Replying to Air Nrsli. Labour Secretary. the Rev. Howard Elliott reiterated his previous declarations uncut the Oamuru and Tuuranga seats, that .Mr Nash was entitled to put- bis own inti*) p;etai ion upmi tin* Lai-, but the general public would le- '-eiiisa ! lie pr miliar -igil l Hli iiin e of the fact tb.il in both c-i e-, Labour delil crateL ■ luod aside in f.i\ mil' of I lie Liberal-. Tim I’. !’. A. members had been styled bigots and nobodies, but tlie speaker held that all its officers were men of highly respectable social position. A WESTPORT FIRE. WESTPORT. April 9 A lire was caught in an incipient stage in a cottage in Derby St reel, to-night, owned by W. Slovens. The brigade were quickly oil the scene, hul the flames had already been subdued by a garden hose. The interior walls of one room were damaged, and a wardrobe of clothes was destroyed.