DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 87, 16 August 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

ASSAULT ON A YOUNG WOMAN [Per Press Association.] Auckland, August 15. Clyde street, a badly lighted side street off Auglcsca. street, i’onsonby was the scene of a brutal assault to night on a young woman. She hat spent the evening at her brother’.house and left at 9.50 p.m. to go home. Her statement is that she took a tran to Anglesea street and went along tha street. When near Clyde street slu heard footsteps behind her, but pais no hood till suddenly she was seizes: round the waist by a man. She screamed but the man put bis hand ove, her month, dragged her into ( lyd street, threw her on the grass anc caught hold of her throat. She strng glcd violently, and the man struck he a severe blow on the face At th

same time his grip on- her throa loosened and she' again screamed whereon the man got up and away Though weak and exhausted, tin young woman got up and stumbled t< the corner of Anglcseh street, whei she mot neighbours,' who recognise her. She then fainted, and was take; to her home. One of her eyes wa bruised and greatly swollen and he nose was cut.

TICKLISH LAW CASES. Invercargill, August 16. At the Police Court a young nativof Niue Besini Mispa, was charged with being an undesirable immigrant Accused, while working on Malden Is land, had a dispute with another na tive whom he fatally stabbed. The Resident Commissioner of Niue re fused to allow him to land. As tin murder did not take place-on the de pendency under his control, the paper: regarding the case were forwarded (a Wellington. The Magistrate said th whole affair bristled with law points Meantime accused would be detained i prison until word was received fron Wellington. ACCIDENT AT THE BLUFF. While the Norwegian brig Anglo Norman was berthing at the Bluff, sin collided with a pile and an audio' which was hanging over her bow w.r driven through a plate, making a hob about four feet long by one-foot, Just above the water-line.

MAN OVERBOARD

Wellington, August 15. Considerable excitement and alarm was caused on the steamer Aorangi (which arrived from San Francisco thir afternoon), when the vessel was about three and a half days’ sail from Tahiti. While working on one of tin ship’s boats, an ordinary sea-mar named Funnel fell overboard. He at onco disappeared from the view o those on board, so it was decided ti circle round for some time, and f vigilant search was made of tin locality. The steamer eventually returned to the scene of the occurrence, guided by the voice of the man calling for asistance. The Aorangi steamed for/about a mile and a half, and succeeded in picking Funnel up. The rescued man, who is considered one of the strongest swimmers on hoard, had been in the water for about three and a half hours before being recovered, and it was found that he was little the worse for Ids trying experience.