DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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ACQUITTED OF THEFT. DANNEYIRKK, April 21. Horace Edwin Barnsley charged with alleged theft of moneys belonging to the Dannervirke branch of the Labour Party, was acquitted.

DOCTOR AND ENGINEER. WELLINGTON, April 21. Dr v . I). Henry to-day proceeded in the .Magistrate's Court against F. Richardson, civil engineer, for £2119, balance of professional fees. Plaintiff, who bad attended defendant for seven years, stated that if ho bad charged according to scale, the bill would he twice as much, lie had performed four operations. Replying to an assertion that these were not consented to by • defendant, lie said that Richardson bad not refused them, and had insisted oil the 'last one. Defendant. In evidomo, said that lie consented to a slight operation, and had not been informed of the real nature of the operations. The .Magistrate said that lie sympathised with defendant, as the operations were not in the defendant's opinion satisfactory, but his impressions were not necessarily correct. Judgment was given for the full amount, with CIO costs. ARBITRATION COURT. WELLINGTON, April 21. A motion asking lor the withdrawal of the sitting Judge of the Arbitration Court was carried at a conference of the Trades and Labour Councils, recently held at 'Wellington. FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND. April 21. The body of .lames Ingham, a married man, aged about -id years, residing at Freeman's Bay, was touml on Takapuna Beach to-night. He Inn! liei-ii missing since yesterday morning ROSS DEPENDENCY USELESS. WELLINGTON. April 22. Lecturing on the Ross Dependency. Captain Hooper, who was recently in that region with a whaling licet, said that last year’s eateli totalled ‘,31.500 barrels of oil. He had reached tlm conclusion that with the exception whaling, there was no prospect of establishing :i:iv industry in iho Dependency. even though sonic mineral' ai d eoal had been found. There was no vegetation to maintain life and the introduction of carnivorous animals would be calamitous to the penguins. Ibo soil was scanty, there being nothing butrocks. Guano was visible when the snow was oil' tlm ground during the three mouths of the summer period. WELLINGTON TRAMS. AVER I iIN'GTON,. April 22. The Wellington trams last year carried -10.2fi-T.079 passengers (an increase of | .5J:1.0 IT I'll the previous year! and ran fl,-102.Td1 miles. The revenue per car per mile "as 28. ISd and the working expenses 2!.78d. EXHIBITION POSTAGE STAMP. WELLINGTON. April 22. The Uoxtniuster-Gcneral intends to issue a new stamp in three denomination;; in connection with the Dunedin Exhibition. The- Siam) s will be of one half penny, one penny and lour penny deiiominnt ions, all ot one design, but of different colours. The design is now being prepared.

CHRISTCHURCH IN Y E RCA !!U !!. EX I’KIN'S. WELLINGTON. Anri! 22. The .Minister ol Railways in referring to the express pa-.'Cnger traffic in the Smith states that a strict check has been kept r.s was intend 'd, to retain the daily express, service between Invercargill and Christ! hard) if the volume of traffic ’warranted it. Ihe result, unfortunately, "a- that the traffic was well w ithin the S'ope of last w inters service mid shore is no allerur.Uto pi agreeing to a reduction to the Usual winter M-licdufe. An u-( derated lime table lias already been arranged f. r this service and this will k.soiue o| eralive about -May Dill- la order to ascertain bow the time-table will died traffic, the daily service will be retained and the position eaielully " it bed till the end of May. The wh de matte.' will then be reviewed with the object ot determining what o-orvit o is rcquiiv'i jor the remaining winter mouths. SELF-BROI ELLEI) RAH- COACH. WELLINGTON, April 22. The first self-propelled steam railway eoaeli introduced into New /.onland is now operating on tlm Welling-ton-Lower Hull line, making six trips daily, these being additional to the ordinary service. The touch covers the eight miles, including three steps, m eighteen minutes. BOXING. WKLhiIXGTON. April 22. . Cabled advice lias keen received in Wellington from Brisbane that the light-weight. Paul Demsky, diew with Jami to Filipino on points ns a lut'd of twenty rounds.

RIVALS COME T() blows. WELLINGTON. April 21. Jealousy of a supposed rival tor a young lady’s affection made lan Henry Carlyle “see green" one night, ami in consequence he was up at the train’s Court on a 'barge ol assault. Carlyle, it appeared twin the ‘‘ri-dr-nee of witnesses, was wailing outside the voung lady’s place of employment for'her to coma home, and when the li"lit of his life appeared m ‘om;vilh other young man name;. Ashman, the gallant demanded an explanation from him. Vihen to.d tli.u it was none of his business the wwngcd one punched Ashman .... the nowami said he would teach him to wk(

his girl out. , The voung lmlv appeared at tU Court, ‘and when que.-a.mm-d by Suphispoctor Hollis, admitted that delcud.ant was her "sweetheart " and that she had "gone walking" with another hov She hadn’t seen the blow stiuck. Ashmen received a fractured nose, and bruised ribs, and Mr I’. K - u " ’ S.M.. decided that it must .osttarIvle Cl and costs.

JIOB E IMMIGRANTS. AUCKLAND. April 21. \ party of 3-10 immigrants, including JO domestics, arrived by the to-day, the great majority wing Scotland. The immigrants are oi an exec "• type, and most of them arc young Those hound for Wellington and all ~t h er destinations ex<ep. left l.v the main trunk express wui.rht. The Gisborne contingent sui.c. early in the evening by the V.amu,.

niSPCTK OVKK.HANOI.iNn AUCKLAND. Ann! 21 Troub.h. aro-e to-dav over the | sof the Cuion Company s eaigo l ‘ haT & r- Vi-umi which arrived at an tmonumr A ■» c; v t jm<rs were dm. ordered the men to cease noil. Consequently th« hatches were again covered, and the steamer remained ld 'ri, 0 Union Company state that the men were offered 2s 7 Cl per hour to work the ship,- but that offer was not

accepted. The award wage: for the working of guano is 2s -bid per hour in excess of that for the handling of or-

dinary cargo. A similar situation arose when the Kakapo arrived at Auckland some months ago with the same kind of cargo. On that occasion the vessel was idle for several days Pet ere an, agreement was reached. No decision has been reached tonight. N.Z. OA.T CROP. WELLINGTON. April 2d. The yield of oats in New Zealand this season is estimated by the Government Statistician, Air Malcolm Fraser, at T.<>90.000 bushels, as compared with 1,904.511 bushels lasi yeat. width was a bail season. There is. therefore, according to the report furnished by the Statistician to the Minister of Internal Affairs, no likelihood of there being any shoiiagc of oats ia the Dominion. NORTHLAND TUNNEL. WELLINGTON. April 21. By mid-June daylight should show through the far end of the Northland tunnel. Of the 2PT feet which the completed tunnel will measure, -02 It. has been epu reled. and a further section of II feet wiil be concreted next week. Work w ill Is gin on it on Monday.

This leavcs 79 feet t:i be driven ami the tunnels' rate of propro.-.s averages feet a month. Thus tlm end ot the task is within nioasureahle distance. The “heading” ol the tunnel is kept about IT feet ahead of tiie main excavation work, so that daylight should Us seen in two months’ time. N.Z.R.U. WGI.LINGToX. April 22. The annual report of the New Zealand Rugby Union reier.s largely to coming tours. Alter New Zealand lias visited N'.H.W. ti>e latter will send * team here. The meeting will be asked to endorse the invitation to Great Britain In send a team to the Dominion in PJ2ii. am! Hie prop sal to send a N.Z. team In Africa in 1927.

Last season resulted in a profit of £;ill(t. this solely arising Irom the trial matches for the All Blacks; but for them there would have been a loss. 088 was lust on the Maori tour; £7lO was spen l on lilting out the 2>.il Blacks

over and above i| K , fir,Cd recoverable from the English Unh.n ; expenses of the delegate to the l.oiuk u Conlvrome is not included in this year's accounts, they uni being known yet. The amount on loan lrom the Union has increased I rein £BR!4 to £1:!.97P.

WELLINGTON ELECT RUTTY !) I I’ART.M ENT. WELLINGTON. April 22.

The City Electric Lighting Department's financial year just closed appear-- to he one oi the most successful rcccrde-|. 'I be credit balance amounted I>> 9209.(i11. living an increase of

'£59.429. The working expenses t tailed JUKI. 119 (an increase of £2’ 042). The figure, icclnde elvcliiii .supplied to tlm tramways.

pillion riding dangerous. PALMERSTON N. April 22. At the c'i'aaiii! enquiry into the death of Leslie William Redshaw, ;,g.- I 2li, from injuries sustained through a motor cycle, maiden!. the evidence .'boveed ibe deceased and a conipauioa left town in the early morning, after a dance, for Ashurst. bis companion pillion riding. The eyrie atiarcutlv skidded and struck a Power Board pole, bull being tin-own to the ground. In returning a verdict, of accidental death the Coroner in c-.-mmenftug on the accident said ids opinion teas pillion riding was a dangerous practice' though t here was a diversity of opinion on the subject.

AY. li. PARFITT RE-ELECTED. Ci;EY.M!>I"!'H, April 22. Mr W. 11. Pa ili 11 lias been re-el.-elecl A'lnver uuoppi sod. I lie t oilicil consdsl s of Me-.os Doogan. Greeiixlnde. Haller. Kent, Kib hinglmni. Ab-Giuley, O'Brien. Remit hi. Williams. elected unop] used. Hospital Board: Mc-srs AshCai. Brisln no, Pa Hitt. I.anikertou. unopposed. Power Board Messrs D'i.' n. I eunent. Bignell. Grecii'lade. O'Brien and Perelti have i a noluiii iied lor three seals Pi be filled. lII.ENII FIM NOMINATIONS BLF.XIIF.fM. April 22 Mr Malcolm McKenzie, Deputy Mayo!', has keen elected, unopposed fur tin' Mayoralty. There are fifteen candidates for nine .seats on the Council : four candidatefor two st-ais on the Power Board and live candidates for I luce seats cat the Ho;; it,-! Beard. BRUNNER BOROUGH. GREYMOI "I'H. April 22. Tlm Brunner nominations lor the Mavoralily are: Messrs Roust ridge ami Williams: for tlm Cmin-ii. tnere arc twelve for six seats; Inf the Power Board, two for one seat. AT WESTPORT. WESTPORT. April 22. Mr Meuzies (.Mayor) was elected unopposed. Messrs IU. ho. Greenland. Henley. Weekes. Shew. Jenkins, Fox. Fair and Sutherland were elected to the Council uuop|—--d. For the Hrcpital there were live nominated fur three seats.