DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 October 1931, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

POSTAL CLERK CHARGED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) TAIHAPE, October 7. A postal clerk, Hector Linton, was charged at Mungaweka Court yesterday before •Justices with stealing money from postal packets at Chsngaiti. He pleaded not gu Ity. He was remanded to Wellington for trial. BRUTAL ASSAULT. WELLINGTON, October 10. Yesterday afternoon the wife of a well known Wellington man was the victim of a daring brutal assault on a much frequented path in the Botanical 'Gardens, Kelburn. She was struck twice on tho head with some heavy object and collapsed, on her knees and screamed for assistance. Her assailant, a middle aged man, took to his heels and although pursued by several men who answered the woman’s screams, escaped. He made no attempt to the rob the victim. EDUCATIONAL B EQ'UEST. •WELLINGTON, October 9. . The late Edward Espy 'Martin, who died at Melbourne on January 18th, has bequeathed the stlm of £SOO for the purpose of establishing a scholarship ut his old school, Wellington College. LONG-DISTANCE 'PHONE CALL. WELLINGTON, October 9. Tho first commercial telephone conversation between residents of Wellington and Amesterdam, Holland, and •incidentally the farthest commercial telephone call from New Zealand, was held last night when Mr A. Van at his residence. Hataitai, at 7.15 p.m. received a call to say Holland was waiting for him. He was at once net into communication, and had a conversation which lasted ,«eu minutes, and was quite successful. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. MARTON, October 9. Mystery surrounds the death ol a middle-aged Hindu, who was a passenger from Dannevirke, on the Limited last evening, and whose body was found on the railway side near Marton 'this morning. Papers in his possession indicate that his name is Govjnd Pema. He had no train ticket, and not being ab.te to speak English the guard could get no satisfaction, and had decided to put him off the train at Marton., On arrival at Marton the Hindu could not be tound. It is understood that he appeared at the Dannevirke Court on the previous day, and was ordered to leave the town. THEFT OF CLOTHING. HAMILTON, October 8.

Using a 'motor car to transport the haul, thieves broke into the Onaupo branch of the Farmers' Auctioneering Company early this morning and removed ;t large quantity of men’s and women's clothing. They blow open a safe, but obtained only a small amount of cash, Included in the haul were a typewriter, a shot gun, ammunition, qlothing, boots, hats, butter, cheese, biscuits, and a large quantity of cigarettes and tobacco.