DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1928, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. POST OFFICE BOBBED. WELLINGTON. -March 13. A robbery occurred in the Money Order and Savings Bank department of the Chief Post Office on Monday, when £I4OO was stolen. It appears that £I4OO was sent as a remittance through the Post and was received at the office. When the figures were gone into at tin 1 close of the day’s operations, the sum mentioned was missing. As none of the clerks could give any information as to its whereabouts, the police were informed, and as the result of inquiries made, Detective Bayliss, who was handling the case, arrested to-day a postal clerk, aged "18. and charged him with the theft of the money. The police state that about the whole of the £1 100 lias been recovered. The clerk will appear in the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow. ASKED TO BE LOCKED CP. WELLINGTON. March IT Thomas Thomson walked into the Mount Cook Police Station yesterday afternoon and asked to he locked up and sent t<l lloto Boa Island. He was under the influence of liquor, hut not drunk enough to be placed in the cells. He was accordingly told to go away and did so. but when at what he thought was a safe distance, he threw a stone, through a window, causing damage t > the extent of £1 10s. This time lie was taken into custody. Thomson, who is 3b years of age. was to-day lined IT and ordered to make good the damage, in default seven days imprisonment. UNREGISTERED DENTIST FINED. CHRISTCHURCH. March 13. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Warwick John Dawson, aged b 3. an unregistered dentist, was fined £b with costs for practising without a certificate of a registered dental practitioner. It was stated that Dawson, who was permitted to practice only under supervision of‘a fully qualified man, and ha had an opportunity to sit for examination recently, but bad failed. Mr Sargent, for defendant, said the law was more severe on unregistered dentists, than on unregistered metlica 1 men. and a man could practice medicine as long as he did nor pose as a registered medical practitioner. AYRF.CTvED FISHERMEN. AUCKLAND. March 13. The three men—N. Blackburn. J. Buchan, and C. Ledger—who were rescued from a fishing launch at sea. and were taken on to Sydney by the Niagara, returned by the Maungnmii to-day. They said that when the Niagara sighted them they had been more than 48 hours without sleep and had drifted about bO miles. There was a heavy sea running and the launch was nearly full of water when abandoned. Subscriptions and a concert, organised by Captain Hill on the Niagara, at which Dame Nellie Melba sang, .realised about £l6O for the shipwrecked crew. COLLAPSED AT TOP OF POLE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 13. While up an electric light pole on the Burwood tram line to-day, Thos. Kelly, single, aged 23. suddenly collapsed and fell over the cross-arm. He was carried down and medical aid summoned, hut he died from a cause not apparent, hut presumed to he heart failure. Kelly seemed in good health when he ascended the ladder, but had a seizure while waiting at the top for material. Kelly did not touch the live wires before or after he collapsed.