DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

CLAIM FOR MILLIONS By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright HASTINGS, Sept. 30. A. T. Fanning, of Hastings, considers there is a probability' of his •eing'in the running.for a share in the Cox twenty millions accumulated in v-hamery. His maternal grandmother wa.s a Mrs Elizabeth 'Cox, married to John Cox, in in 1855. Fanning’s mother is now about. 75 and ret members that a strong conviction.exist! ed among her people when, she was a girl that the Cox family had a lot of •noiie.y s.>m ;>where 'behind tliein. He intends making inquiries regarding liis daim.

PROSPECTING IN WAIHI , DISTRICT. AUCKLAND, September 27. Further • progress toward the formation of a district prospecting and mining company at Waihi to investigate hitherto unexplored areas on the field in the hope of making important discoveries, was made at a meeting off the committee appointed to carry out preliminary arrangements. . Provisional directors were appointed for the pur-pose-of preliminary investigation.. It is proposed to seek the co-opera-tion; of Dr.. J. Henderson, .Director of Geological Survey, who -will be; asked to confer, :witli local mining men as-.to the most promising areas for exploration. . • : •':: 'i •; ,• >: ■, r ' • ••! • N.Z. • EXCHANGE- RATES.'' .; ' SELLING PREMIUM INCREASED; ' WELLINGTON,'September 28. The Acting'Chairman-of the Associated Banks' announces that on and liter Monday, September 30tli, the -selling rates of exchange will be increased by one-quarter per cent all round. There will be no alteration in the buying rates. The rates will now be as follows On demand: Buying 2s fid per cent discount; selling- 20s per cent premium ; three days’ buying, 4s 6d per cent discount, selling blank; thirty days’ buying, 12s fid per cent discount, sell- : •ng 12s 6d f ’pei Cent 'premium;'' sixty days’ buying', 22s fid per cent' disoitnt; selling : ss - ' per' cent, premium ; ninety days' buying ! 32s fid' per cent ‘discount, ' selling '2s Cd’/pef, cent • discount ;12Q days’- buying 42s 6d per cent discount, selling blank; telegraphic transfers 30s per cent preniium.

MTSLLINGTON FIRES;' WELLINGTON, Sept, 30. Two' houses were destroyed by fire, at Eastbourne. One was occupied’by a fisherman, and ; the insurances' are. nh- 1 'kriowiV. Tlie/other. ,l?y Myj TBonner, ' a butcher.’ was insured t| for. €950. The flames reached the i;.electrie power poles and cut off the power and. light for some time, MOTOR OAR. FATALITY: , / ' . WANGANUI, Sept; 30. ' When a motor, cycle and .side,-car overturned at the. intersection of. SeU wyn Orescent and Grey Street,., early 'last' evening, Mavis Mitchell,' agjed r our years, received fatal injuries. She died in the hospital a fey' minutes later.‘~ . ~ At the inquest to-day, /flic, father., who was riding the machine said that, be. applied .the brakes in order .ifco avoid a motor car and the cycle and side-car overturned. The Inquest was adjourned. " . .

PROPERTY DEAL. BLEXIfEI'M, Sept'. 30 . A property sale’ of more than . ordinary public interest, in view ( of the fact that the .property had been offered, to the .Government, ..for. the, jmiv - oses of closer,, settlpnicnf,, was vfiiial- . isecl when Mr ,G. F.y Wafts of . ,Lans- ■ downe, purchased, ,011,.behalfof Mrs f>elta .Estate,.,. tiie pTQ-r

perty of the late Win. Pollard. It is understood that the property was ftef- S cjiiired as a going concern at a price: in the vicinity of £50,000. . .A FOUND HANGED. INVERCARG-ILL, Sept. 30. Donald McPherson, aged about 30 years, a single man, was found to-day hanging dead in an outhouse on Ifle Mt. Linton Station. The deceased 1 had gone to the station only a few days ago. / ‘ . . - ,• PUBLIC BEQUESTS. AUCKLAND,'Sqpt. 30. Several public bequests are made under the will of Mrs Margaret Gleeron, of Auckland. The sum of £503. has been bequeathed to the Mater MNericordiaec Hospital, ' Auckland; . £SOO is to ’be held in' trust, the income to be paid in perpetuity to' the principal of the ‘ Mar is t Brothers’ Order in Auckland, for establishing a scholarship at Sacred Heart College, to be known as the Patrick Gleeson Scholarship; and • £2OO has been bee quenthed to the Little Sisters of the Poor. ' V' '