DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

BODY FOUND.

(By TelegraphV-Per Pross Association.) DUNEDIN, October 29. v\ I The North Dunedin police were notified this morning that the body.,,of a man in a state of decomposition had been washed up fponr the v .‘haVbour by the tide. It-nvas later identified as Edward William. , widower, aged 56. - The bcKjy, ’hiid pro! biibly been in the Vater for'nbput sheWeeks, as deceased Had riot 'been, seen since September 5.' An'inquest was opened at the morgbe, andj : evidence of v identification was taken. -*'• ■ -'v .‘A -'i NEXT PRESS CONGRESS. • TIMARU, October 31: /; Mr Robert Bell, President of - the. Peace Congress' of the World, announces, that the next sessions of. the Congress 1 will lie held at Ottawa, Canada, iriV July, 1929. A CYCLIST KILLED INSTANTLY: ’ OAMARU, Oct. 31. Walter Vernon Metcalf, ' a joiner, if 1 aged 40, and married with two ehil-T dren, while turning a sharp corner V. at Wharf and Itchen Streets, on a cycle, lost : control arid dashed into ; a fence post and was killed instant^ to - ’ ' ■' ■ • Vi- 1 f ■ -Ziv

A WASHOUT.

CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 31. A '

Although a washout occurred on the;: West Coast railway line yesterday DA afternoon, trains; were •able to get 5 .-; through to-day. Ilie irouble was caus- 'j . ecf.by a swollen creek whichoverflowed; • its. banks and \fhe waters : entered a-r cutting on the line on-the east side of - • Otarama, eating through the end of the v bank. ' '' ‘ A

POSTAL OFFICER CHARGED: O:

WELLINGTON, Oct.

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At . the .; Supreme Court, A Thomas A ; Houston, a postal ; supervisoWA charged with attempting to steal letters y* containing money; adilressed to a local f firm ; with stealing a 'postal packet A: containing 19s, and three counts; of v .

opening the same postal packets, The ? r jury, after several retirements dis-/ \ agreed on all charges but that of open- d ing one postal packet, on which they A; found accused- guilty. -- ‘ [ A A new; trial ' Was . granted and the . judge said he would later hear counsel’s application to set aside the verdict on . the ground that it was not a postal ; ; packet.: » '/ A ' ! A: .

FALSE PRETENCE. D ‘ AUCKLAND, October 31. George Edward J. Forster, a retired A, army officer, was found guilty of false ,A pretences in connection with the*'pur- V chase of a car Ifronr a female resident of Whangarei. Sentence bn Saturday. y> : > * .. - - wmß