DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

MAIL BAG MISSING.

( By Telegraph—Per Press A ssoc/iation)

September 22. What is apparently a mailbag robbery took place on the six o’clock train from Hastings to Napier last evening. The hag contained a quantity of registered and other mail, and was missing from the train when it arrived at Napier. An officer o*f tile local post office took the hag to the train, and was seen by Mr Riddell (proprietor of the station bookstall) to put it in the mail van. It was put in a position of apparent security, and th© whole transaction was carried out with the usual care and caution. It was not until the train reached Napier that the loss was discovered, and further investigations led to the belief that the bag was taken before the train left Clive, half way between Hastings and Napier. The police were notified and official search parties riding jiggers and afoot set out at a very early hour this morning, to seai;cli the railway line and land skirting it. There was a hope that the bag might have fallen out of the van on to the side of the line but a thorough search leads to the conclusion that the hope was in vain. There now seems little doubt that the hag was stolen.

PARTY OF SCHOOL BOYS. WELLINGTON, September, 22. On board the Corinthic, arriving tomorrow, is a party of 22 English public school hoys on the way to Australia, to undertake an educational tour, and the advance agent, Air D. G. White, of Christ Church, Oxford, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui to-day to meet them. The hoys have been recommended by the headmasters as lit to represent the schools, which are: Ampleforth, Brndfield, Charterhouse, Eton, Glenalmond, Harrow, Repton, Marlborough, Rodley, Sedburgh, Stowe, and Winchester. In Australia, the boys will be separated and placed on sheep and cattle stations as guests of the owners, and then be taken to another State to he placed on farms there, and so on, throughout the country’. The tour is being conducted by’ the same committee which conducted the New Zealand tour, i_ 1 INTERESTING JUDGMENT. WELLINGTON. September 2b. An interesting judgment was delivered to-day by Justice Reed, awarding Stephen Pilcher of Wellington £342 os damages against Ley land Motors Ltd. The facts were that the Company on selling a lorry to Pilcher under the purchase, took out an insurance cover note, but tljis expired before, the lorry happened to be destroyed by fire. 'l'he Insurance Company refused to acknowledge any liability, and Pilcher had not been notified that the cover note had expired.

WAHINE HITS WHARF

WELL) NGTON, Sept. 23

Caught by' a gust of wind, when being berthed this morning, the U.S’.S. Coy’s. Waliine struck the wharf, splintering the woodwork and 'shattering a pile. A rivet was sprung in the ship’s stem ’which shows sign of the impact.

A RBITRATION COURT.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 23.

The bakers and pastry-cooks dispute in the Arbitration 001114) was concluded to-day, when a large amount of evidence was heard. Judgment was reserved.