VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 10 April 1912, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

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'iPEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHS.] A DOUBLE CATASTROPHE. FEILDING, This Day.—A party o£ motorists were returning from Taikorca yesterday evening when the axle of the car broke. The car ran into a ditch and threw out the occupants. The driver Morris received a broken shoulder. The. benzine spilt on the grass was accidentally ignited by a man looking with a lighted match for his spectacles. The car was completely destroyed. It was worth about £250 and was uninsured. ! A NEW RAILWAY. • GISBORNE, This Day.—The official opening of the railway to Otoko, 51 miles from Gisborne, took place to-day, the ceremony being performed by Hon W. D. S. Mac Donald (Minister of Public Works). The ribbon was cut at Waikohu, the late railway terminus and congratulatory speeches delivered on arrival at, Otoko. THE NO-LICENSE PARTY. PALMERSTON N., This Day.— At the annual No-License Convention of the Wellington, Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay provinces, the following resolutions were passed That any proposal to appoint separate days for taking political and licensing polls be strongly opposed by the party; That the time has arrived when further political action is necessary for the repeal of the three-fifths majority : That the Convention urges the Executive to bring before Parliament the just claims of the party for a reduction in three-fifths ma jority; and that the Convention recognise the necessity of strengthening the position of the local option issue. YOUNG MAN DROWNED. HAMILTON, This Day.—Ernest Richard Dennison, a railway porter, aged 27, was drowned while swimming in a lake yesterday. Dennison dived from a punt, splashed about and then sank. The body was recovered an hour and a-half later. Deceased leaves a wife and young child.