DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1928, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. iTAUMARUNUI, Jan. 23. A distressing fatality occurred at Ohara yesterday afternoon when two children. Gordon Beveridge Jenks, 1-t, and Albert .James Anzae Jenks, 10, were drowned in Ohura river. The fatality occurred at a swimming jkx>l near the railway bridge. Apparently no one witnessed the tragedy. Ihe unfortunate victims were last seen alive at 2 o’clock. The parents reside at Frankton Junction. A FIRE. OPOTJKI, Jan. 23. A fire totally destroyed an old wooden two storeyed dwelling owned by G. S. Moody early this morning. The house was occupied by a Maori, P. Uuta. The building was one of the oldest in the borough. about fifty years. Insurances are not available.

NEW HOSTEL. WELLINGTON, Jan. 22. National Park Board has definitely decided that a new hostel at U hakapapa shall he built- on a site about 300 yards north of the present but. Ten lints are eon tempi a toil, each to hold twenty-four persons, but only one will be erected at present. 'I be Board is cramped for 1 mills until the toll charges cnine into force. flio.se tolls will range from 2s (id per motor car downwards. In consequence ol demand for accommodation at I lie lime of winter spoils, the Board decided ilint all Clubs must apply by October 31st for the following season and where dates clashed, would he decided by ballot. DEATH AFTER ARREST. AUCKLAND, Jan. 23. A married woman nas walking along Lake Road, Devonport, on Saturday evening when a man struck her with an iron bar. two blows across the head and a third across the bridge of her nose. She sustained two scalp wounds which required stitching, tint her skull was not fractured. The police arrested John Costello in bed and

charged him with the assault. lie was placed in a police cell alter midnight. lie was examined by a doctor at r a.in. on Sunday and three hours later he was sent to the hospital, his condition, being peculiar. He died in the afternoon.

SYSTEMATIC THEFT. AUCKLAND. Jan. 23

Reverend Smyth, vicar of St. Peter’s Church. ()nclning:i. returning home after a holiday, found liis bouse ransacked. Evcrytlung moveable that was of value was stolen including Air and Mrs Smytli’s wedding presents, a wireless se-t and loud speaker.

LOST PROPELI.OR, AUCKLAND, Jail

The Northern Company’s steamer Ngatiawa, which lelt Auckland at 3.35 yesterday afternoon with passengers and cargo lor Total'll Point, and other northern ports, lost one of her propellers in the Ilaurnki Gull and returned to Auckland last night.

When off Kuwait Island at seven o'clock last evening, the port propeller dropped off. The trip was abandoned and the vessel returned to port, propelled h.v the starboard engine. This is the second pmpc'lcr that, the vessel. has lost within two weeks. On

the previous occasion, she ilia oil llouhora when the port propeller wu k:-t. (In Hr 1 ve-sel’s return Lo Ar<klaiid. she was lilted nith the propeller which was lost last evening.

WOMAN'S BODY FOUND. WAIPUKURAD. Jan. 23

The body of Miss Alexandria Mcßae aged foiirly-foiir. a well-known settler was found 3't chains from her home ‘Mien a tie” Matmna. on Saturday altern ain about three o’clock ivitli a gunshot wound in her breast and n double hiirelleh'd gun alongside her. Tile- right barrel was discharged and the triggers attached to a fence by a string. She had been about the house at 10.30 a.m. and was not missed till mid-day when a search was i list i t utedby her brother, John and Jas. Synic.