DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

FATAL FALL

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 19

William .limit's Mowbray aged 21, o'l 1-10 Somerfield St. Wiis killed on Saturday evening by falling over a cliff at, Sumner. Evidently lie . slipped while taking a short cut up the hillside. The body was found on the top of a concrete garage at the foot of the cliff with the head hacllv smashed.

INQUEST VERDICT,

CABTKBTON. November I!)

Death h.v a self-inflicted bullet wound wl.ee mentally depressed was the verdict returned by .Mr J. .Miller, S.M., at the iiK|uest yesterday afternoon on the body of George .Henry Sydenham lOngall. aged 31, one of the original settlers of the Wcstmcre Settlement. His body was found yesterday morning lying unconscious near a shed. Death occurred before medical aid arrived. Deceased had been ten years on th(> section, and was latterly under medical attention.

PRESS CONGRESS

WELLINGTON, Nov. 19

Mr Hubert Bell, of Christchurch, who lias been on ft six months visit to Alaska returned to New Zealand by the Maungamii and goes south tomorrow night. He is President of the Press Congress of the world and lie has been making preliminary arrangements for the next session of the Congress which will he held at Ottawa, in ,f ll lv. Bell is pleased that during his presidency the Congress will he held in British soil for the first time. [|o hopes there will he a representative number of Now Zealand and Australian proprietors and journalists to accompany him.

A BOV MISSING. GISBORNE. Nov. 19

Sent out last evening to bring in the cows.' Stewart Walker, aged 10. employed by .7. Barr, at Piilia, failed to return. His horse and dogs were found on the opposite side of the river. which Walker had apparently endeavoured to cross to get several of th<> cows that had strayed. The crossing was a dangerous one and was not often used owing to the presence of logs.

CM \ RGBS OF ASSAFLT. Cl IB ISTCIIUBCH. Nov. If)

As a sequel to a Saturday night affray at Lyttelton, throe firemen. Philip Hock. 21. William Bcylnnds. 28, John Henry Harris, 25, appeared at Court charged as follows: Hock with assaulting a constable: norlands wilfully obstructing the police: Harris lighting a person unknown, resisting arrest > and assaulting a constable. All wore remanded on hail till Wednesday.

false pretences. 'PALMERSTON X.. Nov. 19. At the Police* Court this morning. (Icorge Rohert TTiiich was charged oil six counts with false pretences, l>v allegedly obtaining sums totalling (.'2lllO from Ronald 11 endri< h Nitschko of 1 Sonny (lien, for investment in tlie New Zealand Commercial Association Ltd. There is another charge that at Palmerston North he did make a false document by altering a promissory note drawn by 0. R. Hindi and Charles Pratt for £2OO to C20I) and finally to £llOO and uttered the same to Nitschko. The hearing is expected to last all day. PALMERSTON N.. Nov. ID.

Senior Detective Quirk stated the accused was local manager of the New Zealand Commercial Association Ltd. He allegedly obtained the various sums mentioned by representing he would obtain shares for money in the said company, whoso hooks, however, showed no trace of the trail t ions.

THE DISMISSED NURSE

AUCKLAND, Nov. 19

The summary dismissal of a nurse from Auckland Hospital for sending an indiscreet letter to an ex-patient at M t I'.dcn gaol, was referred to this morning by Mr -I. A\ . Card tier, of New Lynn, at whose home the nurse is staving having been taken there by 'his daughter who is also a nurse at the hospital. He says the girl was unjustly treated. T( is monstrous that she was flung out on the street at a moment's notieo without mouox to on homo to the South Island. Although given tickets, the same uere dated a week ahead and the girl had not sufficient cash to keep her ever, one day. although in a written statement to the Hoard requesting rccon-

t .:a of her ease, the nurse says she lmd three weeks holiday pay duo and also a fortnight of a month’s pay. (The nurse had just received notice she had passed the first examination in general nursing and previously had gained a midwifery certificate.)