DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

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A .MOTORIST’S COMPLAINT. NAPIER. June 2fi. The North Island Motor Union is to be asked to take action in the ease of a €lO fine for by-law breaking. TIIO Hawke's Day Automobile Association, at a meeting to-day, received a complaint from a local motorist who was lined this amount for driving on the wrong side of the mail at Cambridge. He characterised the case as one of flagrant injustice and told how the constable bail acted in a liigli-hatided manner when taking his name and address. At the same time, he said, a person convicted at Auckland on a charge of technical forgery was tilled €O. The Association decided to bring the matter belore the Union as a remit. with a request that aetion be taken. POWER OE LOCAL BODIES. WELLINGTON. June. 20.

A statement which amounted to an undertaking that llm Government will give local bodies authority to .-pend money upon district courts at the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition was made by the Acting-Minister of Industries and Commerce (11011 G. .). Anderson) to-dav. "I know what you want,” said Mr Anderson, as soon as the deputation entered his room. ‘Aon are busy men. and so am I. \on want authority for local ho'.iics to spend money pit the Exhibition. Well, 1 am going to ask Cabinet to give that an-tVi-ity. Does that fix you. gentlemen 7" Tho spokesmen replied in the nllinu.•■tive. adding that the .sooner the authority was given the better they Would k ' | '.eased. Tie .Mini r aid that he would bring 1 lie mutter before Cabinet at its next’ meeting, to-day. or in-morrow. || ( . 1- .ml in tlie deputation a droit eiau-e giving the necessary authority, providing; that an ovei'dralt iucttri'ed in tv .pert to 1 .mtrihiit ions to the Dunedin Exhibition should not he 10gttriled at an overdraft which H subject to the limitations 'ol the Local Radi* s Finance Am. NATIONAL RANK SHARES. WELLINGTON. June 2d. Tli • new issue of 21111.000 shares of the National Rank of New Zealand, for which applications closed, on the -Ji'd itist., was eminently sneccsslul. Shareholders were offered at a premium ol €2 10s, 1 new share lor eieiy three already held. <0 the shares available to shareholders on the New Zealand register, less than one per cent, remained unapplied lor on the 22ml iiist. Although shareholders had the option of paying in three insist!cm.nts, June. July, and September. p.i per coni, of subscribers paid tip in full 011 applii atioii. M ith this new issue the National Rank n! New * Zealand. Limited, adds €1 .000.0110 to ' its resource-:, and shareholders’ funds ia (he business will now exceed €l.l 10,000. i A MAORI PROPHET. WANGANUI. June 20. I for smite time past a new Maori prophet. named Wi Puku. has exeivisjed a considerable degree ol control c. c-r a large section ol the .Maori peoI pie resident about Whnkataue. lie j lias prophesied for Wednesday next an j important event —that there will lie lot i sued a huge diamud about the size | of a sheep, which was some coilsideri aide Lime :■ 91 thrown into the sea. His

Native followers have great expectation- of wealth accruing from Ihe -ale 1 1 Litis huge diaumiiti. DEATH IN DENTIST'S ( HAIR. WELLINGTON. June 2 b .\n implext was Itcltl to-day on Adam J.tir •„ Glasgow, a law clerk, who cnllapsed and died in a dentist'-, chair on Monday dining the course ot a dental opera tain. Tlie medical evidence showed that Glasgow had acute bronchitis and inIhimmatioii ol the lungs. Ilis condition would mil be apparent In a dentist. The coroner said that the oeeunvilee win a most 1111101 tiinate one. Glasgow was m.t aware of bis condition. Ihe dentist had taken all reasonalile p: eea at ion-: to ttscerl a 1 11 whi'lher the 1:1:111 was in a lit state for the operation, 'lhe t'oroller tumid that Glasgow died from the eifeets ol gas administered lor a dental opera lion while suffering from acuta lirbuehilis and in(lainmatioii of the lungs. UNUSUAL CASE.

WFLi.IXCTOX. June 20. I.opal history was nnnle in the Arbitration Court to-day. In a ease in which a watersider claimed compensation lor an accident against a shipping company the Conn had decided that plaintiff had not established his <laim and pave judgment for the com- !'■••> oy. Plaintiff's el. Mr 11. 11. Cornish, pointed out that tile judgment took auav from his client any right to make aiiv furllier claim in eomieetion with the accident, if circumstances should arise in the future to warrant such a course. He asked lor a nonsuit.

.Mr .Justice Frazer said he doubted whether it was within the Court’s power to grant lion-suit. It was a most unusual tiling. .Mr Scott, the employers’ assessor,

said that in his fifteen years’ experience with the Court lie had never heard of a non-suit. 11 is Honor consulted the Act and found that provision was made for a non-suit in arbitration eases. Air Cornish intimated that he would accept a non-suit and this was granted. This is apparently the first non-suit, on record in the Arbitration Court, HOTTi.K’K Til UK 1C YEARS’ DRIFT. WICU.I’XCTOX, June 27. The Marine Department lias received advice that a bottle thrown overboard from the schooner Coronation off Mntakawa Point, near I'.ast ( ape. on 21st .May, IS>22. was picked up recently on the' beach at (Ireen Island, fourteen miles oast of Cairns on the Croat Harrier Reel'. The bottle thus took over three vears to drift fifteen bundled odd miles. A light south-oaslorly fn'eeze was Plowing when Hie bottle was east overboard.