ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 12

ITEMS IN BRIEF

Prisoner Recaptured.— A. Press Association message from Sydney states that John King, a prisoner who escaped by jumping from a train in motion, was rearrested when starving and ill. He called at a homestead near Tamworth and was persuaded to give.himself up.

Serious Fire in Hobart. —A serious fire in Lewis and Company's three-story building in Hobart caused damage estimated, at £lO,OO0 —Press Assn. Gift of Rose Bushes—The Government of British Columbia is supplying tree three hundred rose bushes for the British Legation at Peiping. A similar gift is planned for Australia and Japan.—Press Assn. Queensland Oil Field.—The latest news from the Roma oil field shows that the Blythedale wells produced a quantity ot black oil. states a Press Association message, from Brisbane.. Gas from Ao. 4 well ignited accidentally, the flames roaring 25 feet in the air. Japanese in British Columbia.—A Press Association message from Victoria (8.C.) states that the inclusion of Japanese in the Provincial Boys Parliament precipiated a warm protest from Mr. L. F Davie, Conservative, who deplored the inclusion as an encouragement of Orientals, who were not wanted in British Columbia. Attempted Murder and Suicide.—Repulsed in persistent endeavours to persuade Maisie Thompson, aged fourteen, to accompany him to a dance, •’ames Harvey. sixteen, drew a r-olver atthe girls home in the Sydney suburb of Hurstvilie. and shot her through the chest. The boy then fled. Later he was found dead in the scrub with a bullet wound in Ins temple. The girl’s dying depositions have been taken. —Press Assn. Admiral Beatty’s Tilted Cap.-Ths secret why Admiral Beatty wore <-HP on a tilt is revealed in Lieutenant-Com-mander Geoffrey Rawson s Life of Lari Beattv.” He says that it is due to a peculiar cranial conformation which makes it impossible for him to wear his cap on a level keel. It him severe headaches, until finally he adopted the famous tilt. —Iress Assn. Suicide Follows Melancholia.— The wife of Joseph Gallagher, a seataring man, yas found dead by her son on Sunday (reports an Auckland Press Association mesAt the inquest, the Coroner returned a ‘verdict of suicide by poisoning. \ daughter stated that her mother hoc been depressed and melancholy for some time past. A Period of Meteorites. —Meteorites. 01 •‘shooting stars,” may perhaps be seen in the north-eastern sky. fairly low down, during the Hours past midnight to-night and to-morrow. The periodical shower to which these meteorites belong is knowr ■is the Zeta Bootids. and the radiant ll situated fjiirlv close to the bright stni \ ret urns, which is duo north between 3 a.-m. and 3.30 a.m. to-morrow and succeeding mornings.