DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

uy Tm.ucatATMt — muss assn., coi’yuigut. XEI.SOX CATHEDRAL. NELSON, March 25. At a meeting of the executive of the Cathedral Building Committee preliminary sketch plans of the proposed Nelson Cathedral were approved. The Cathedral when finished will cost 080,000. The eastern portion of the Cathedral will be proceeded with first and building operations will be commenced when sullicient funds are in Imiul. The -urn of C 20.000 left by the late .Miss Marsdcu will be available for the first portion of the Cathedral and a vigorous plan of campaign will be proceeded with at an early dale.

A I’IILSOXER ESCAPES. CHRISTCHURCH. -March 2d Frederick Marshall, aged IM. an Australian criminal serving a sentence imposed al Wellington about twelve mouths ago for forgery, bolted I roll! the I’aparua prison Inrm yesterdav afternoon. |ic was driving a dray at ll„. lime ami apparently took a horse with him as 11 ic horse was found in a plantation near the farm. I p till noon 1:,. was still at large. A MUNI MENT. IA I'M A BAN!'I. March 2d ()„ March 2‘h-d. a party consisting of T. J’.lyth Ohakime. \ W. (iordon and M- (-ah in of Taumarumii made an ascent ol (.milestone Peak. 8750 feet, in Tongnr. iro Park, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of (he marble slab erected thereon two years ago m meni-m-v of the late Hugh Girdlestonc, F.R.G.S. Despite the powerful disentegrating forces which are continually acting against this precipitous pinnacle, the monument displays no sign of deteriorating and the party is of opinion its permanency * now assured.