DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

FEMALE BIGAMIST. ;(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Aug. 20. Alvna Clarice Hazel Wendt, thirtytwo, pleaded guilty to-day to bigamouslv marrying John M’Olennan, while her husband, Herman Rudolph Wendt, was still alive. It was shown that Wendt and his wife married in 1917 at Hamilton, and had lived together for two or three years and then parted. Subsequently Airs Wendt, lived with another .man as his wife and bore him three children. Then she met M’Clennaii, with whom she lived an? whom she subsequently married in 1925. She had one ..child to him. They later parted, and she was now back with the man with whom she. had previously lived. She was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

. A USELESS DONATION. PURCHASE OF RADIUM. AUCKLAND, Aug. 20. The sum of £750 which the Auckland Savings Bank has donated for the purchase of radium was received by the Hospital Board yesterday. At the same time, the board was notified by the Auditor-General that the law made it obligatory for the sum to be invested and the interest only used for the purpose intended. “It means that we cannot use the sum, to purchase radium, but that' it must he kept in trust for permanent endowment,” said, Air W. Wallace. Air J. Rowe: Then it is practically useless. The chairman: That is what it means. Tt will give us £4O a. year for the purchase of radium. A member: Ridiculous. On the chairman’s suggestion, the matter was referred to the Finance Committee, which the object of having legislation enacted to enable the sum to he used directly to purchase radium. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 21. Obituary—William'! ' Frederick AleLean Buckley, aged<69, for some time Chaiman of the • Canterbury Jockey Club. He was once a well-known polo player and breeder.

INVERCARGILL BY-ELECTION. INVERCARGILL. Aug. 20. The final official returns for the Invercargill election are: J. V. Ward 5194 J. Hargest 4623 Informal 23 INCENDIARIST INJURED. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 20. In the. Supreme Court Alax Bulling, 70, was sentenced to. three months’ imprisonment for arson. About midnight accused set fire tolA small store, which had been liberallyiSsprinkled with' petrol, and in thelexplosion and blaze, 'the' clothes were almost burned off accused. r i Counsel said that' Bulling’s eats had almo-f been burned off and the flesh qn liis neck wirt so badly scorched that it bad to be cut off. Bulling had been in l:ed for t-o and a half months and was si ill suffering. from 'the.’;effects,'. Air Ju.-l i •<* Kennedy, in giving effect to the jury’s recommendation to mercy, said that it was obvious that accused had been very severely punished by the pain and suffering lie had endured.

PAPARUA ESCAPEE.

ARRESTED WHILE AT WORK

CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 21

After being at liberty for two weeks Timothy Edward Cosgrove, who escaped from Papnrua Prison on August Bth. was aniestod to-day. He was working on a farm near Duiisantlel. The constable at Leeston learned that a man who answered to Cosgrove’s description was employed on the farm, and drove out in a car, and seized him while he was grubbing gor.se on the roadside. Cosgrove offered no resistance. He did not deny his identity. He was still in liis prison clothes.