MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association THEFT ON STEAMER. LONDON, May 30. In response to a wireless from the steamer George Washington, that securities valued at twenty-seven thousand sterling had been stolen from the mail room, two detectives went aboard at Plymouth and found remnants of food and other indications that someone had been living in the mail room. It is obvious that the thief concealed himself there in New York, and after committing the theft was released by an acconiplice. When the steamer reached Bremenhaven, a search discovered Albert Rosenborg, an alleged international crook in hiding. He led the detectives a lively chase all over the ship before he was stunned with a spanner and arrested. A sailor named Bavra was also arrested as a supposed accomplice of Rosenberg, who was kept aboard the steamer for return to New York. After some days of detention he showed detectives where the whole ol the missing securities were hidden. RUSSIAN MINERS. * MOSCOW. -May 30. An official agency announces the general council of Soviet Trade Unions has transferred a further four hundred thousand roubles through British Miners Federation on account of collections from workers. BUS FARES. AUCKLAND, May 29. During a City Council deputation to Iho Premier regarding the bus regulations, one speaker pointed out that it w.-as a mistake to suppose that people in the outlying suburbs would be penalised by the extra 2d passengers were to be charged for travelling ever tram routes in buses. The regulation was entirely to the benefit of tlie outer area, as it would prevent buses being crowded out by people who did not go beyond the tram terminus. THREE FISHERMEN MISSING;. ROTORUA, May 31. Anxiety is felt for the safety of three men. Gustave W olfgrainm, a settler, and Douglas and Davies, who left Rotorua, presumably to return to Ngonotaha, in a fourteen foot boat with an outboard .engine, at seven o’clock on Saturday night. Relatives were alarmed and secured a launch, and are searching Lake Rotoiti. assisted by the police. The party Were goine fishing on Sunday morning from Ngongotaha. The boat was well equipped with oars, and rowlocks. As there have been no heavy winds, only slight southerlies prevailing, the possibility is that the party, owing to it lieing the last day of the fishing season, went

direct to Lake Rutoiti. News of tlic return of the launch is anxiously awaited. ,THKFT of tobacco. DUNEDIN', AI ay 31. Someone lias made sure of a good supjily of tobacco for the winter by the simple expedient of removing a. case, containing 2301bs of it, from a shed on the Victoria wharf, the haul being valued at £BO. The shed was entered some time between Saturday night and last evening, two padlocks being removed in the process. No arrests have yet been made. P.O. OFEGTAU CHARGED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 31. This afternoon, Detective J. .Bickerdike arrested Frank Hardy Francis, Supervisor at the Rnngiora .Post Office on a charge of having, on November 21, at Otautnu, stolon the sum of £IBO, the property of the Postmaster-General. Accused was brought before Mr C. I. Jennings, J.P., and, on the application of the police was remanded until .Tune8, to appear at Christchurch. Rail was not applied for. It is understood that other charges are pending. The accused lias been in the Post Office for the past thirty-two years. obituary. DUNEDIN. May 29. A private telegram from Perth. ‘Western Australia, announces the death of Mr F. C. Higgins, the manager of the Standard Insurance Company, in that city. Mr Higgins was well-known throughout New Zealand As a cricketer, he represented Otago for many years.