DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

FOUND DROAA'NED

DARGARYILLE, Nov. 7

Peter Brown, about seventy-two, was found floating in the river. He left tho hoarding house where lie spent the night early in tlie morning, and his body was noticed in the river about 10.30 and recovered a few miles down by a launch. At the inquest a verdict of found drowned, with no evidence to show how lie. came to be in the water was returned. CAUGHT IN THE ACT. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 7. Charles Thomas Batkin was caught ransacking bedrooms in the Racecourse Hotel, Riccarton on Saturday afternoon and held till the police 'arrived. To-day lie was sentenced to twelve months reformative treatment on a charge of theft, the police stating he had been previously convicted in 191(1.

AY I RED ESS. HASTINGS, Nov. 7

o SAY Chelmsford, England, was heard here last evening very clear anil at good loud speaker strength. The wave length used was twenty-four metres. The programme consisted mostly of gramophone records.

THAAIES, Nov. 7

Dr l.iggins, of Thames, picked up Station 5 SAY, Chelmsford, Essex district. Jt was stated to be broadcasting at 21 metres. At 4 p.m. yesterday (summer time) speech and music was just audible. At 5.03 an organ solo, with the strength increasing at six p.m. The announcer said at 0.25 a.in. that daylight was just showing on the horizon. At 9.35 it was picked up again at good strength and was held till 12.30, giving a complete musical programme. ft is thought this is the first time an English station lias been heard direct in New Zealand.

SEQUEL TO GUY FAWKES. Tl-lAAIES, Nov. 7

There was a sequel to Guy Fawkes yesterday when eight children at Kiri Kiri, close to Thames, procured soukgun powder. They made a small heap to which a match was applied, resulting in an explosion. It burned all their faces, three seriously, and they were hospitalled.

OIL VESSEL AFIRE. AUCKLAND, Nov. 7

The oil vessel Te Ton, owned by AA’. AA’right, and trading to Alanukau Harbour, narrowly escaped destruction by lire on Saturday afternoon. AA’hen discovered it had enveloped the engine room. It was extinguished with extinguishers. The engines wore badly damaged.

TAHITI ARRIVES. WELLINGTON, Nov. 7

The Tahiti arrived to-day. The passengers give a graphic description o’ the ferry boat disaster in Sydney Harbour, revealing the harrowing nature of the scene, as the people were drowned beneath their eyes. A strange part of the whole thing, said one passenger, was that before the Tahiti left the wharf one of the gangways accidentally fell, missing a man l>v inches, while a girl seeing some friends off fell between the ship and the wharf and was rescued by a bystander. It seemed as if the Tahiti was ill-fated from the start. AA'EI-LINGTON, Nov. 7. The wharf was crowded as the Tahiti was being berthed. As she drew alongside all eyes were searching the hows lor signs ol the latal collision, but beyond a. scar in the paint a few feet from the waterline and a. few slight dents in the plates not observable until the' vessel was very close, there was nothing to show a tragedy had taken place. The passengers however had obviously been under intense mental strain and were very disinclined to speak ol it. Ihe disaster uas too lig to grasp at the time and a. full realisation only came Inter. RESCUER. HONOURED. AYELLIXGTON, Nov. 7. Ono of the heroes of the Greyclille ferryboat disaster is a greaser on 1 the Tahiti named Corhv, of AVangfinui, a relation of Captain Corby, of o:e oil tanker, Otokio. He rescued three people. Yesterday he was made a. presentation on beljalf ol the pinsenders on the Tahiti.

A NARROAY ESCAPE

NELSON, Nov. 7

A motor lorry driven by 11. Young, plunged fifteen feet down a hank into Teal Stream on Saturday alternoon. Young was pinned underneath and certainly would have been drowned had not his companions held his head above the water for an hour, until assistance arrived.