DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Ptess Association.)

GAS POISONED. AUCKLAND, Nov. 21. Escaping gas in a bedroom almost poisoned James Lawson Morrison, aged 73. and Jiis wife, aged 71. They wore admitted to the hospital in a serious and unconscious, condition. They had assisted a brotlior-in-law to move and being kept till 2 a.m. arranging furniture, accepted an invitation to s|ieml the night at the place and occupied a spare bedroom, the window of which was shut. In the morning they could not he aroused. From 11 10 position of the bodies they had evidently been trying to

grope tho-r way from the loom when overcome by the gas fumes. Gas had been escaping from a bracket with two jot i. neither of which had been turned oft'. The hospital authorities stated this morning that the condition of Mrs Morrison was critical and of Mr Morrison fair.

SUDDEN DEATH. GISBORNE, Nov. 21. A Maori, Paikonoki AA'aihua, 59, employed as a shearer at Waimata, died suddenly alter complaining ol pains in tlie chest and side. KILLED BY CAR. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 21. Through a car in which she was a passenger overturning in a patch ol shimile, in trying to avoid a cyclist, Mrs Fanny Shepherd, a widow, aged fifty-one, was killed at Southbrook. Mrs Shepherd was being driven hy her son, aged nineteen, along the mam road. She was pinned underneath. The driver escaped with bruises.

CAR FATALITY. NELSON. Nov. 21. J. L. Thomas, single, aged 18, n sawmill hand of Knka, died as the result of a fractured spine, caused by a car he was driving over Spooners Range nose-diving over a hank on Saturday afternoon, l'wo other occupants, AY. Everett and R. liiggs, escaped serious injury. Deceased was learning to drive at the time and an instructor was sitting alongside when the accident occurred.

j OBITUARY. WELLINGTON. Nov. 21. Obituary—Justice Alpers of the Supreme Court bench.

YACHT UPSET.

AUCKLAND. Nov. 21

A small yacht occupied by two sons of J. AY. Andrews, of Kohiinaramara, and a hoy friend, was caught ill a heavy squall on Saturday evening and literally nose-dived and over-turned in the choppy sea. The boys held on to the craft with difficulty till a launch, conveying Grammar girls in charge of N. Compton, approached. Working to the lee of the capsized craft ho got one lad aboard. Then he drifted too close and the screw got entangled in the yacht sail, hut lie got the other two hoys on his launch. All were thoroughly exhausted. Campion's launch, however, was disabled, through the screw being tied lip with the yacht’s sail, lie signalled for help and the water police despatched a fast launch to the scene. The girls were transhipped and Compton’s launch towed ashore.

MARORO FURTHER DAMAGED GISBORNE, Nov. 21.

Advice has been received by Hie owners that, the schooner- Maroro, stranded at Blackhead, has been holed on one side which materially increases the difficulty r- r salvage.

HON. L. C. AAfERY. AUCKLAND, Nov. 21

Ffon. I/. C. Amery arrived hy the Niagara. He was met hy the Mayor and accorded a civic reception in the Town Hall at noon.

•Interviewed, lie said lie was looking forward to meeting old friends like Sir J. Allen, Sir F. Hell, and Hon. Downie Stewart, and to renew acquaintances with Mr Coates whom he met on the Premier's recent visit to England, and General Russell whom he saw with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. Asked his impressions of conditions in Australia he said ho thought they were working out wisely the Mhite Australia policy. He didn't think there had been any undue immigration from the southern parts of Europe. All he saw seemed to he settling down naturally in t'he life of wealth. He considered it would he wise to restrict undue Asiatic immigration to Australia. He believes it will he possible for white men to work further north in Australia than has been hitherto supposed possible. Mrs Amerv said my husband has had such a wonderfud welcome that T cannot help being happy. Tt was the same in South Africa and Austro];.,. 1 cannot imagine anything more spontaneous and cordial. Everyone has been most kind.

WOMAN THIEF. AUCKLAND, Nov. 21. At the Police Court, a fashionably dressed young woman, Enid Rachel Hahn 23. charged with theft of a snuff box, valued at £2O, and £l7 in money, belonging respectively to Mil inm Goodhail and lan Keith, pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Cummings said accused arrived from Sydney on Oct. 4th and took rooms at one of the leading hotels. She was requested to leave this and three other leading hotels on account of her behaviour, amt too many male friends. The thefts with which she was charged were from business premises. She was convicted and remanded for sentence, pending information from Australia.

BUS FATALITY INQUEST. WELLINGTON. Nov. 21. r The death in a hospital on October i 17th as a result of injuries in a bus accident on the Hutt Road was mquested to-day by Coroner Riddell. i McCourtrie, assistant Chief Tin flic 1 Inspector, said he examined the bus , shortly after the accident and too* measurements showing the course » I the bus after it left the road. 1 < would take three and a-half seconds at 1 twenty mile., an hour for the bus to , strike the post after leaving the track 1 |f the driver were in full possession ot • his faculties there would he absolutely , no reason why he should not bring it ' back to the course as soon as it left the road. . To a question: “Then the accident was due either to the act of a madman or to loss of faculties?” Witness answered yes. One passenger, they were all women, sa id, just before the accident a packet of tickets fell down on the floor beside the driver. He stooped to pick it up with his right hand. He had not reached the tickets at the time of the smash. . Pressed under cross-examination whv she had not made this statement in her original statement to the police o„ the dav of the accident, witness said she considered the incident so important that she thought it should no be spoken of till there was a properly conducted inquiry where she would be on oath. She said she had not even told her husband. The Coroner protected witness, saying she had given a satisfactory reason.