SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20612, 30 July 1932, Page 16

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

INDIAN MURDERER OF DOCTOR. (UKITED PBESB ASSOCIATION —BY ELBCTBIC TELEGBAPH—COPYBIGHT ) (Received July 29th, 7 p.m.) CALCUTTA, July 29. Abdul Bashid was to-day sentenced *r » to death for the murder of Captain Coldstream at Calcutta on July 22nd. Bashid confessed, and made no defence. [Captain W. Coldstream (Indian Medical Service), who was a civil surgeon, was murdered by a young Moslem orderly as he was carrying out his duties at the hospital at Peshawar. His assailant leaped on him from behind and stabbed him in the lieck. The murder was the tenth political outrage of the year.]

Third among the six banks operating in Napier to announce its return to permanent premises, the Union Bank of Australia will shortly erect a new block of offices for its Napier branch. Plans for the building have been approved, and tenders for the work of construction will be called at an early date. The announcement has been welcomed among business men and other citizens, particularly in view of the criticism which has constantly been levelled at the banks and insurance companies for their tardiness in re-estab-lishing themselves in permanent premises. Wide support has been given to the opinion that they might reasonably have been expected to take the lead in that direction. Other banks which will make an early return to permanent premises are the Commercial, for which a new building is close on completion, and the Australasia, which announced finalisation of plans a few weeks ago. Building contracts let this week include one for £II,OOO for the erection of part of a block of premises for Blythes, Ltd., one of the leading drapery firms.

Many museums now keep records of the voices of famous people. In Berlin a sound museum is being opened, where members of the public will be able to hear the voices of the famous and unknown. For more than 20 years Professor Doegen, of Qermany, has been collecting these records which include the voices of former rulers, as well as those of prisoners of war from many lands who were in German prison camps. Among these are records of 61 dialects spoken by Rowans.