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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 3

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BANKER MURDERED. BURGLARS TAKE HIS KEYS. 1 SYDNEY, July !). I Mr Erank Cecil Keniinis, Manager of the ilrnsby branch of the Savings •Bank, was assaulted in a. train between Hornsby and Wahroonga, oil his way home from the bank. Ho was robbed of his keys. I.atcr fie was discovered in a semi-conscious state by another passenger. He was only able to state that he had been assaulted,- and his keys taken. Tlie manager was removed to a hospital. where he died the following day. After the assault, an attempt was made to rob the hank, where there was £.5039 in the safe, hut the robbers were I not successful, ns two keys were rcj qnired to open it. The rule of the I Bank is that one key is to he carried ! by the Manager, and the other by ! another officer. • The batik was open for depositors on I Friday night, and apparently the criI niinnls watched the officials close the i premises about ten o’clock. They folr lowed Kemmis to the train. Their plans for the robbing have evidently been maturing for some time, as a few days ago Kemmis’ bouses, at Wahooiigra, was burgled, and a hunch of keys' gas stolen, but owing to the number of suburban robberies lately, the significance of tin* theft was not apparent. The police discovered a heavy blacksmith's hammer near the railway station at Wahroonga, which apparently was used oil Kempiis. A HORSE KILLER. ADELAIDE. July 9. After an interval of three months’ the horse killer here is again operating. \anther horse was found in a park with its throat cut. The killing firstcommenced in 1918, when a number of horses were found in parks, in suburbs killed or maimed to death. So iar 31 animals have been destroyed. LICENSING QUESTIONS. | PERTH, July 9. The Wcstralian Licensing Conttnis- J slot, has recommended that clubs be j closed to visitors outside the hotel j hours .and that club premises shall he j open to inspection by tlie police. | It is also recommended that the ho- i td trading hours he: On the gold fields j from nine in tlie morning till eleven at night: and in other districts, from nine a i* to nine |i.m. as at present. So person, it recommended. under the age of 21 shall he served with houor or employed in hotel bars. .Regarding local option, the Commission has recommended a State wale poll on the question of a wot or dry State to he decided by a simple majority of j the votes east.

A PLAGUED RAT. (Received this day at 9.-50 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 10. A plagued rat was found at Wo*llooniooloo, and a mouse on Darling Harbour premises. GRAZIER’S OFFER. SYDNEY. July 10. I'll,- Glaziers Association has offered a reward for information which will lend to successful proceedings against the Australian Workers Union of any person inciting members ot the Union to refuse engagement in terms of the new Federal Pastoral award.

HUMANE SOCIETY AWARD. MELBOURNE. July 10. The Principal Award of the Royal Humane Society was bestowed on James Watson, engineer at Mount Mulligan. A THEFT. MELBOURNE, July 10. Tvy Matthews, one of the chief witnesses in the Cun Alley tragedy, invested half of her £l3O sterling reward in fitting her wardrolie prior to leaving Melbourne. Whilst visiting friends, a cabman called at Matthew’s house and said the latter had sent him for her luggage. He obtained the lot, and also a bundle of notes and lias not since been sighted.