MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION

TROUBLE WITH. NATIVES (Received this day at 11.25 u.rn.) CAPETOWN, April 2.

Trouble has arisen with a tribe of natives called Rehoboths in South-West Protectorate, who prevented the police from arresting men accused of a contravention of the branding law. It, is stated six hundred men armed with rifles are displaying open defiance. A detachment of the air force is on its way to the scene. The Administrator is mobilising burghers and one hundred and fifty police with Lewis and .Maxim guns are on the spot. It is reported the Kehoboths have cabled the League of Nations lo intervene.

Til K LONDON MYSTERY. (Received this dav at 12 30 p.m.) LONDON. April ,‘i. Overnight enquiries reveal Grenville Cooke, aged fifty, was found dead in Cooke’s School of Anatomy, lie had a most remarkable career. He was educated at Ihnm University and was a poet and inventor, lie was sentenced in 1921 for converting to his own use. money obtained for St. Duustan’s Blind Institute, from the sale of copies of his poem “Cry not farewell,” for which Cooke received a letter of acceptance fiom .Queen Alexandria. A foster son was a prosperous But ley wool merchant. lie came to London and raised money on the reversion ol his father's estate. He mixed with low company, gambled on horses races and drank heavily, lie lived riotously with women in the West End. lie gave Cooke power of attorney over his affairs. Foster’s widowed mother, at Scarborough bad not heard from her ne'er-do-well son for weeks till the news came of bis mysterious death.

GENERAL RAWLINS OX'S REMAINS DELHI. April 2.

The remains of the late General -Rawlin,son,were embnrged on the troopship Assave for England.

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