ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 122, 16 February 1929, Page 10

ITEMS IN BRIEF

FROM FAR AND NEAR Bombay Riots —Bombay is quiet aftex the riots (states a United Service message) . The total casualties were 137 deal and 783 injured. The police and military fired fourteen times. Wet Spell at Sydney.—Yesterday was Sydney’s tenth successive wet day (states a Press Association message). Nearly two inches of rain fell, the total being ten inches since February 4. Lad’s Close Call.—Two lads had a remarkable escape on Mount Eginont on Thursday, states a Stratford' Press Association message. They were glissading on the hard snow, and, losing their ice axes, were powerless to stop, running 2000 feet before being pulled up by soft snow. But for this they must have been dashed to death.

Journeys by Aeroplane.—Major Cooper, flying the Auckland Aero Club’s first Moth, arrived at Blenheim at 12.30 p.m. yesterday with Captain White, of the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club, as passenger. He left in the afternoon for Hawera, en route for Auckland.—Press Assn.

Contractor Drowned.—Walter Carroll, 26 years of age, a contractor, fell off a barge at Meremere, near Mercer, about midnight on Thursday, and was drowned. —Press Assn. '

Mental Patient Recaptured—A Dunedin Press Association telegram states that the Seacliff Mental Hospital patient whs escaped on Wednesday was recaptured at Merton at midnight on Thursday. He offered no resistance.

Territorial’s Fatal Dive.—While bathing on Thursday at Devonport, Guy Lobley, 19 years of age, one of a party of territorials, dislocated his neck by diving from a rock into shallow water. He subsequently died in hospital.—Press Assn.

Ice-cream Not up to Standard.—ln the Waipukurau Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before the Magistrate, Mr. Mowlem, Len Edlershaw, of Takapau, was charged with selling ice-cream containing less than ten parts per cent, of milk fat, states a Press Association telegram. The Magistrate said that defendant manufactured his own ice-cream, and should have known of the deficiency. .He imposed a fine of £5, with costs, 235.

Warships’ Cruises. —The warships Laburnum and Veronica left Auckland yesterday morning on a cruise to southern ports. The Laburnum’s first port of call will be Lyttelton, and afterwards she will visit Dunedin, Timasu, Paterson’s Inlet.. Dusky Sound, Milford Sound, Nelson, Picton, and Wellington. The Veronica sailed for Russell, and from there she will go to New Plymouth, Nelson, We.stport, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Paterson’s Inlet; Lyttelton, Wanganui, and Wellington. The cruisers Dunedin and Diomede are to sail from Auckland on an extended cruise to southern ports on Tuesday.—Special Service.