DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

FOUND DEAD IN QUARRY'.

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

WELLINGTON, July I

This morning the body of Lewis Birins, fifty-six, married, of Palliser Road, Roseneath,..was found at the .bottom of a 2(X) feet face in a' quarry ■in Oriental Bay. I Deceased .was walking with friends on Sunday night m the. district above tne quarry, when suddenly he darted away, from them.. Fruitless search was made iby friends and the police that night. Deceased is said to have been in a nervous state at the ,time .of his disappearance.

ALLEGED THEFT OF BULLOCK

GREYMOUTH, July 1

Frederick .Janies Tibbies, of Maori Creek; Was scliarged to-day with the alleged theft'Pit Marsden of a bullock, valued at £7 2s '6s £he property of Sainuel Stewart.

Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for; trial- at the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in self £s!)' and two sureties of £SO.

VICAR’S RESIGNATION, «

II i MILTON, July 1

The Rev. IT. E. Jones has. resigned from the Anglican parish of Franktori oh the ground of .the inability of the. parish to modi' the stipend after paying* charges on a debt of. over £4990.

(Mr R. C.• Ldwtv’, 'pc r p)e’s waVtlen in tlie' Frankton parish, commenting on tiliejßev H. E. Jones’s explanation that his rerignationUkas dueOto ttri :inability of. the parish to pay the stipend, said-Tliat theppafislt was 1 - quite able to pay..,,. The p .matter between Mr Jones and tlie Bishop, andukbrild possibly Ibd- discussed by Synod. , ...