DOMINION STEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 5

DOMINION STEMS

FOUND DEAD. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) OAMAIIU, April 7. An elderly man, Mr Charles Jewell was found dead in bed at his residence last night at Oainaru. He was a wellknown business man in Oaniani. and is survived hv a widow and a grown up family. A doctor attributed his death to heart failure, and i s prepared to give a certificate. A THREATENING LETTER. AUCKLAND. April 7. Alexander Lawson McLeod, a clerk aged 38, was arrested at Newmarket yesterday morning and appeared at the Police Court charged that on | December let last he sent to Alma Gray a letter containing threats to kill her son. Mr Noble. appearing for accused, asked that McLeod be re- i leased on bail. “He is a docent sort of man, and ,[ i*hink it's only nt joke. Why it’s preposterous,” said counsel. “1 think lie had been to the pictures and had seen ‘Dr Fu Mancha,” and then went home and wrote the letter to his sister-in-law,” said Mr Noble. The Magistrate fixed bail at £IOO.

STOWAWAYS FINED. AUCKLAND, April 8. Bernard Walker Parker att.d Arthur Pascoe, two young Englishmen, were each fined £H> or 14 days for stowing away on the Herminino at Wellington on March 3th. When discovered the Master got into wireless touch with the Mahia, bound from Liverpool for Auckland, and the stowaways were transferred off Galapagos Group on March 22nd, to the Mahia, which arrived this morning. OLD LANDMARK BURNT. CHRISTCHURCH. April 8. A tire destroyed the Hilltop Hotel, an old landmark oil Banks Peninsula yesterday evening. Virtually nothing was saved. It was a double-storey wooden building, built in 1880. It was a popular stopping place in the old coaching days. It owned by H. J. Bell of Christchurch and insured for £9OO in the South British. M. Petty, the licensee, is a heavy loser. The Government telephone bureau was also destroyed.

LICENS E PERM AN ENTLY CANCELLED.

GREYMOUTH. April 8,

Hugh Richard Phimester, alias Philister. alias Kelly, was fined five pounds and his license permanently cancelled for being drunk while in charge of a car. He was previously convicted for a similar offence in the North Island.