DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

£SOO PRIZE WINNER

(By Telegraph—Per Press A ssoi'iation) ■ _T • * ' CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 19.

It was a most fortunate mishap, for Mrs Mary Grigsby, wife of -Mr W. F. Grigsby, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, St Albans, when she dropped a parcel in High Street, just outside Woolworth’s recently;.:, A seller of First’ AkWiWt/jjaioii tickets picked tip the parcel, and to repay his courtesy Mrs Grigsby purchased the ticket, which gave her the second prwe ol £SOO. She said to the ticket seller, “I suppose 1 might as well buy a ticket from you now.” The ticket was the only one she'; held in'the Art Union.

Mrs Grigsby said she felt no particular elation at winning the £SOO. “I do not feel a bit different, but I might have had it been the first prize of £2000,” was the way she expressed herself. Regarding her intentions, Mrs Grigsby said that she would be taking many trips. Her husband could well do with the money in his business. Certain alterations to the premises had just been completed and liad to be paid out of Mr Grigsby’s own pocket. The prize money would cover this expense comfortably.

AUCKLAND AIUR DER. AUCKLAND, December 19. Developments in the investigation of the murder of Air A. J. Blomfield, the chemist who was brutally attacked in a shop ,in Wellesley Street on October 30, have .strengthened the suspicions of ■the police that the assailant was Oswald . Laurence Coulton, who was shot dead Awhile attempting to rob a bank at Remuerr. Coulton has now been definitely identified as the mail who entered a fish shop in Queen Street .just prior to the murder and bought the parcel of fish and.chips which was subsequently found in Air Blomfield s shop.

SOLICITOR'S SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, December 19. At the inquest on Air E. D. MeLiver, a weir-known barrister and solicitor, the verdict was suicide by poisoning. WHOOPING COUCH. AUCKLAND, December 21. A mild epidemic of whooping cough in Auckland has caused the school attendance lately to tall. At a large children’s gathering on Saturday hundreds of those invited were absent because of whooping cough or their parents fear of it. The Health •Officer says the epidemic should quickly pass, now that the schools are closed.