DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

DUNEDIN’S UNEMPLOYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association). DUNEDIN, March 12. The official unemployed list is now 2 6. A LOVE-SICK MAN. AUCKLAND, March 11. . William Campbell, aged twenty-six, a steel worker, charged witli being in possession of an unregistered revolver, pleaded guilty. There was an application by a-young lady to have accused bound over to keep the peace, complaintant alleging that Campbell hail threatened to take her life. The police stated that Campbell and the young woman had been keeping company for nine months. Her parents objected, and the engagement was broken off. This evidently preyed on the accused’s mind. It was a case of a love-sick man. Accused was convicted, ordered to pay costs and enter a recognisance of £lO not to molest the girl further. WANTED TO Dll OWN. AUCKLAND. March 11. “Crying “I want to go. I want to go,” a middle-aged woman flung herself off Surfdale Wharf last evening, olio was rescued only after a struggle. A crowd of picnickers were just boarding the Waiuku to return to Auckland when the woman broke through and leapt into the water. A young seaman, belonging to the vessel, L. Pierotti, dived in. and after a struggle managed to make a line fast to her waist. Still screaming that she did not want to lie saved, the woman was hoisted on to the wharf and thence tab- n aboard the boat. By the time Auckland was reached she had recovered from tlie shock of her immersion and was taken home by friends. WOMAN MTSRTXCt. ASHBURTON, March 13. The police at Mothven and Rakaia are searching for Bernice Thompson, single, 24, daughter of .Joseph Thompson ,of Mount Somers, who left her employer’s residence at MethverL at ~8 o'clock on Monday night and has not been seen since. Sho did not say where she was going when, she left the house and did not take tier hat or purse. A GIRL COLLAPSES. CHRISTCHURCH, March 13. At 1.55 this morning, a young woman of about 18 years, approached a constable on duty in High Street and asked the way to Sherbourne Street. She then collapsed, evidently in a fit, and was hospitaller!. The girl is still unconscious and her identity is unknown. She was fully dressed.