ROMANTIC MEETING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 144, 29 March 1928, Page 5

ROMANTIC MEETING.

CHARACTER FROM HOVEL. AFTER "SUICIDE" IN MELBOURNE VOICE OVER THE TELEPHONE. (Per. Press Association —Copyright.) (■Received This Day, 9.25 am.) LONDON, March 28. The'novelist, Clifford Collinson, who bj wireless has immortalised JJondi, Ooogee and Manly as the best -surrfeathing places in the world, described in a book, "Life and Laughter Amid Cannibals," how "a splendid fellow, Captain Baxter Nicholson, once a district officer in the Solomon Islands, blew out his brains in Melbourne. Collinson's telephone rang on Monday morning, and a voice said: Ihis as Nicholson speaking." Collinson ,surprisedly): "What! Not the chap who committed suicide in MeXbaurneV* Nicholson replied: "Yes, I'm the one." Collinson: "Well, where are you speaking from?" Nicholson (laughingly): "From a very earthly spot known as Mayswater." Both had hearty laughs at the exploding of a romance woven around a supposed evil spell a native devil deviltotem which Collinson possessed. "Nicholson disclosed that he had been in the motoring business in Melbourne and Adelaide for the last two years. He has been offered a position at Raixral, but thought London more attractive. . . The pair arranged to re-live their South Seas romance at an early date at a West End luncheon party.