DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1926, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

I.UY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS. GISBORNE, July 20. A message from Christchurch states that a wireless amateur logged a new* station—the Tomsk University in .Siberia,—for the first time on Saturday morning.^This station was then holding communication with Ivan O’Meara of Gisborne. For some months past O’Meara has received correspondence and photographs from the Russian I operator acknowledging the record then established. O’Meara’s communication with Tomsk was announced throughout the New Zealand press and leading wireless journals some months ago. </ s - SUreTDE. ' WELLINGTON, July 19. James Headley Sterling, married, a recent arrival from Devonport (Auckland), was found dead at Houghton Bay on Saturday, with his throat cut and gashes about the arms and body. He was removed to the morgue. A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. OPOTIIvI, July 20. A shocking accident occurred on the Waioeko road, fifteen miles inland from Opotiki. Jack Donnelly was cycling from ODonae towards town with a man named AVoodsidc when he fell 30 feet over a. bank, struck a rock and fell into the river. AA'oodside helped him out, after which he walked and cycled five miles, when they were picked up bv a. motorist, and taken to the hospital. Donnelly is suffering from a fractured skull, dislocated neck and had cuts behind the ears.