DOMINION NEWS.
il’or Press Association.)
Hokitika, February 14
The Rev. Locke, vicar of Ross, and his sister, Miss Locke, were drowned in the big Wanganui River yesterday. They' declined aii offer of tlie ferryman to take them across, thinking the river crossing was safe. When half way across the trap capsized and the occupants were swept downstream. The bodies have not yet boon recovered. The Lockes were only recent arrivals from Cornwall and were highly esteemed locally. Palmerston, February 14. John McCarthy, a blind man with a bad record, was before the Police Court this morning on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, resisting the police and wilfully damaging a cab window. Last week in Wellington he was fined £5 and costs for using obscene language and other offences. He has upwards of a dozen convictions since 1902. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for resisting the police and ordered to pay tlie amount of the damage caused.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 14 February 1912, Page 5
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160DOMINION NEWS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 14 February 1912, Page 5
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