DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

OPIUM DEN RAIDED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) ' AUCKLAND, Oct. 3. ' Detectives fttund a Chinese house in Greys Avenue so strongly barred last night that they used axes to chop their way to the interior of the premises, where, it is alleged, opium' was being smoked. Five doors had iron bars fixed on the inner sides and barbwire was used to make the entrance more difficult. Seven Chinese were in one room where lamps were burning. All were arrested. At the Police Court this morning Ah Chin was charged with being the occupier of the house, six others being unofficially in possession of prepared opium. All were remanded to October 8. DISPUTE AMONG MINERS. RiEEFTON, October 2. T]roubilc oit the ißcefton coalfield came to a head to-day, through a party of tribute,rs refusing to join the, Union.* At a step-work meeting of miners to-day it was decided not to resume work until the tributers complied Svith the union’s request. There was no work to-day. , . • UNLICENSED* . PISTOLS., • NEW .PLYMOUTH, Oct. .2. An unusual case was heard-, in Court when a woman, was charged with having 'possession of two unlicensed automatic. pistols- formerly- registered by her husband, who died five, and a-half rears ago. She pleaded guilty to not notifying his death. The defendant was convicted and discharged, pr ivided the weapons were surrendered. THE COX MILLIONS WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. A further claimant to the Cox millions, reported to have accumulated in Chancery, is Mr Alfred Cox, of Miramar, a constructing engineer in the employ of. Tolley and Sons. He is a sou of Alfred Cox, a London builder, who died in 1900. His grandfather was Henry Philip* Poole Cox. A BANKRUPT AUCKLAND, October 3. John Francis Hullen, an Auckland solicitor, was to have met his creditors to-day, but there was no quorum. Hullcn’s statement showed his debts totnlled £2,000 and assets .over £6,000. The claims of unsecured creditors totalled £2OO and secured creditors £5,400. Thie value-of securities -was; estimated at £10,860. Assets included' property "Valued at’ £2/870 and a' surplus from securities of £5460. •- / He had made large investments- in land and : house property when times were good, -but'had been caught by the slump and it had cost him £7OO yearly to hold on to his properties. He had to part with large personal'property to pay interest rates, etc. The worry of it had unnerved him. He had. not practised law for two years. “To-day I have only eighteenpence in the world,” lie added. He owed not a 4 'penny"for goods. '.' .. ’rhe Assignee said though there 1 was no ouoriirn lie would like the opinion 'of those present. It was agreed to facilitate the debtor’s discharge, tlm Assignee to investigate with a view to the realisation of the properties.