ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12

ITEMS IN BRIEF

FRM FAR AND NEAR

Car Dter Injured.—A stationary car on Auckland, on Saturday, morning Vg struck by a lorry, and carried on to the railway line. The driver of the car-as taken to hospital.—P.A.

Missing i,rse.—Luggage belonging to a missing nurse. Dorothy Margaret McHaffie. h been found at Arthur s Pass Railws Station, but there is no trace yet of ( e woman (states a Press Association tig rnm from Christchurch).

Shark Viet. Dies. —An Australian Press Assnciatn message from Sydney states that Al: Butcher, aged 22. who was terribly by a shark at Maroubra last Monda died in hospital early yesterday tnorni,.

The Graf Zepifa —The Beilin correspondent of thq3 r itish United Press says that the GraZeppelin will leave Friedrichshaven fc North Africa on March 26 (states n Australian Press Association message

Cold Wave Visits: a pan.—A renewed cold wave with terril winds is gripping Northern Japan (sta s an Australian Press Association mes ge ). There have been many conflagrate, including the entire destruction of’Ciseniiuma, and over two thousand doings near Sendai.

Sudden Death.—A P s s Association message from, Whangar states that when .gating dinner on Suiay Eric Jane, aged about 40, supposedly ingle, a member of a bridge gang of,u Whangarei railway staff, fell from hishair and expired a few minutes laterHe was believed to have a brother res: n g at Newton, Auckland.

Americans Abroad.—lt is a loun ced In an Australian Press Associate message from Washington, that 400,(r) Americans live abroad, including 21>. j n Australia, 55 in New Zealand, and. 2,910 in Britaih and Ireland.

Plant Classification. —The ,Enpire Marketing Board (states a Official Wireless message) has made (rant to the Royal Botanical Gardens ; Xew, to assist in a complete of all plants in the Empire. Theg-ant, which is for a period of four sears, amounts to £l2OO in the first yeartsing to £l3BO in the fourth year. ,:i

Presentation of Lifeboats.—Thr lifeboats are being presented to theloyal National Lifeboat Institution by ir of the principal shipping companies,! response to the appeal made by the 'inca of Wales last year (states a BritisOfficial Wireless message).

Theft from Room-mate. —In" the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton, a jth, Wylie Leonard Floyd, was sentenc to the Borstal Institute for two yearfor stealing £3 15s. from a room-mate,nd false pretences. He forged the name a former employer to an order on an Afcland firm for clothing. The prisoner d previous convictions. —Press Assn.

Deep-Sea Angling.—On Sunday, t Mercury Bay, Captain Mitchell, of Za Grey’s party, landed a 6601 b. black mi, lin, a New Zealand record, and a 5301. tiger shark, states a Press Associate telegram from Thames. The skin of th former is being sent to the Natural His tory Museum in New York. The party’s total bag is now 89 game fifth.

Drunken Chimney Sweep’s Prank.— John Curran, a chimney sweep, in Glasgow, got drunk, climbed on the roof of a tenement, and began operations on the chimneys at random (states an Australian Press Association message from London). Housewives, wondering why soot was falling, discovered Curran, drunk and black, but happy. He was arrested and fined £3.