DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH FEE TRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES. CHRISTCHURCH. .lan. 5. Tim second Christchurch wool sales •were held to-day when 20,197 hales were offered to a full bench of buyers. Bidding was brisk, but prices were on a lower basis than the high prices that ruled at the first Christchurch sale, but values were better than at Tiniaru and Dunedin. A PRISONER ESCAPES. WELLINGTON, January 3. A successful dash for liberty was made on Thursday evening bv a prisoner attached to a gang working at Trentliam, and, up till an early hour this nmrning. the police had been unable to ascertain his whereabouts. The escapee is a young man named Victor Charles Hugo (Leaves, and is oft. O',in in height, with brown hair grey eyes and a fresh complexion. On July 10 last he was sentenced at Blenheim to two years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering and theft. and lately had been an inmate of the prison at Trentliam, During Thursday he was attached to a gang at work there, lint at A run. he dill not answer the roll call. It is possible that he made for the .direction of the river, and probably nought a hiding-place in the bills. Euless outside assistance 'ms been forthcoming, the escapee must he feeling the pangs of hunger, since, so far. no houses have been entered in the dN trict. The police are keeping a close look-out for the missing prisoner, who is a seaman by occupation and an Australian liy nationality. T'n till 9.30 a.in to-dav no news bad been received in Wellington of lii.s recapture.