DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

[by telkgravh—run press assocation.j .MISSING TRAM PEES FOUND. Al AST F. ETON, .March 7. .Mr and Airs Bmekett. the missing Hampers, were lound by a Levin party on Ait. Duiidas on Saturday ('veiling. Both were well v. hen tol'.nd, and had proviso us su.Ticient lor several days. Their safety was well provided for. From the Alasterton side of the ranges Four search parties, comprising about 25 nmole. were uncrating over the whole range north I rum Alt I loldsworth and converging on Alt Dundas. So had the Brueketts descended Alt Dundas on tins side they must have been picked up within a day’s travel Irom the summit.

ALLEGED THEFT. GISBORNE. .March 7. The loss of a horse from RccfUui nearly five years ago had its sequel at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when -Charles Edward Brown. 55 years ~|- age, apueared charged with the the 1 1 „f a"”horse valued at Lid. the property of AY a Iter Bn-ti. The case possesses unusual feature-.. Do May I Oh. 1920. the horse wr - missed by its owner, and information v.given to the police. For two years nothing was heard ol the 1,l itter and'then the horse was recovered. ' It was alleged the horse had been nurchased from the accused, lor whose arrest a warrant was issued. By this time the accused had lelt the district, and nothing was heard ol him until he was arrested in Gisborne. When the accused came he lore the Court, this morning, Detective Mel-eoa applied for a remand until next Thursday, to enable the police at Reckon to he communicated with. The ieinnnd was granted accordingly, no airplication being made for had.

DEATH AFTER TENNIS. STRATFORD. March 7. Frank Hanford, a well-known Jersey breeder, president, of Jtl.e Taranaki Jer.sev Council and cl.aiunan of the Stratford Dairy Company, a,lter a strenuous game of tennis on the local courts to-day collapsed and died without regaining consciousne*. He letc a . widow and family of seven.