DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

PRESBYTERIAN Y.M.B.C.U. (By Telegraph—Press Associat on). WELLINGTON, .January -I. i'or tlie first time the annual meeting ol the New Zealand Presbyterian Young -Men's Bilile Class Union is lining held aaprt from the Master camp. About thirty delegates are present in Wellington. f ilie report mentioned thirty-two classes were added to the Union during the year and over a pa> iod of nine months £1056 was subscribed to Foreign and Home Missisons. this sum being larger than for any previous year since 1928. TRAGEDY FEARED. CAMBRIDGE. Jan. I. it is feared another tragedy has occurred m the Waikato river at Cambridge. East evening two youths were engaged in eeling in the river, when they heard a splash in the water, followed by a gurgling sound. It was too ; dark to see anything. They searched the vicinity and discovered a borsnlino hat:, also a gold mounted safety razor outfit and two shillings in silver. There was nothing to show the identi fil iation <Jf the owner. Ino police dragged the river without success. SCDDEN DEATH. GISBORNE, Jan. 4. Thomas Webster, aged 57, married, u carrier and South African War veteran. died suddenly last night, collapsin', while reading. He had apparently been in good health. THEFT CHARGE. WELLINGTON, January 4. Avon Roderick Ayres, aged 42, a plasterer, when interviewed by the police in reference to the theft of £‘B 10s from a friend who spent New Year’s Eve with him. said his wife had leit him and he had taken the money to feed his three young children. The probation ofiicef said accused’s children were left practically alone. He thought probation might he granted. This was granted for twelve months. Restitution was ordered of £4 10s, the other £4 having been recovered. obituary. NELSON, Jan. 4. The death occurred at Helonsville to-day of Robert Allan, for many years a prominent business man of Nelson. THEFT CHARGE. GISBORNE, Jan. 4. Two young men, Robert Cyrl Southward and Francis Charles Gomel’, were committed to the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence, on four charges of theft committed at various stores, whilst on a cycling tour. BIGAMY CHARGE. CHRISTCHURCH, January 4. At the Magistrate’s Court, Albert Edward Herbert Vince, pleaded guilty to a charge olf bigamy and was committed for sentence. The charge was that having married Violet Alary Guldens at Otaki on September 6th, 1923, lie went through a form of mar-' riage with Emily Marion Jewell at Hamilton on June 6th. 1928. In. a. statement to the police, accused said his wife cleared out from him and he married the second woman under tlio name of Hubert Allan Burns, making out he was a bachelor. DEATH IN BARBER’S SHOP. , AUCKLAND, January 4. Mitchell Arthur Walker, aged about fifty, died in a hairdresser’s saloon this morning. He was a visitor to the city. His identity was discovered 'from a Post Office Savings Bank book. A testimonial showed he had worked as a cook at Taumarunui.