DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PIB 28188 ASSOCIATION.] HOSIERY STOLEN. AUCKLAND, September 3. Thieves broke into a hosiery shop in Upper Symonds Street, at the weekend and stole stockings and gloves worth £ll5. They emptied 80 boxes of stockings. “SAVAGE” CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, September 1. After an interval of five years, delegates of Savage and Orphans Clubs, comprising the Association of Kindred Clubs held a conference -to-day. The following officers were elected: President, G. J. Adams (Wanganui); vice-presidents, N. Heath (Auckland), H. F. Wood (Wellington), A. Wheeler (Timaru); Secretary and treasurer, Colonel Loach; Auditor, A. R. Sherris. ASSAULT CHARGE. CHRISTCHURCH, September 3. At the Magistrate’s Court, a charge of assaulting Seth Snoswell, so as to cause actual bodily harm, was preferred against Edith Firth, 58, domestic, who was remanded to September 11. on bail of £5O, and one surety of £ 50. Displayed in Court was a garden fork which the police alleged was a weapon used by the accused. The complainant, is now in hospital for treatment, his nose having been broken in the affray. Counsel said he understood the charge might be reduced. The police said that further inquiries would be made.

SMASH AND GRAB. AUCKLAND, September 1. , An audacious smash-and-grab rai’d was carried out between 2.30 and 3.30 this morning in the shop of Charles Wise, pawnbroker. A constable passed the shop at 2.30 and saw everything intact, but shortly afterwards one or two men must have levered aside a heavy iron grille, smashed a thick plate-glass window with a lump of concrete, and reached a tray of diamond rings values at between £2OO and £250. They were unable to reach other trays. The pawnbroker, was sleeping in a room immediately above the shop, but heard nothing until he answered a prolonged ringing of the telephone, and heard from a detective what had happened.

CAMBRIDGE CHURCH. AUCKLAND, September 1. It is understood that Archbishop Averill has renewed the offer which he made in June last to mediate unofficially in the Anglican Church dispute in Cambridge and the circumstances associated with the Bishop of the diocese in declaring the cure of St. Andrew’s vacant. It was decided by Magistrate S. L. Paterson, that the Rev. G. G. Bell was no longer vicar of Cambridge, and was not entitled to retain possession of the vicarage or the church chattels, and he was instructed by the diocesan authorities to leave the vicarage by Tuesday, August 21. Mr Bell applied for an extension of the period on account of the illness of Mrs Bell, and this was granted.

He continued his efforts to get the primate to mediate. Archbishop Averill, it is understood, has written to Bishop Cherrington and to the churchwardens suggesting that they should withhold any further action pendingfriendly mediation by himself. Mr Bell is prepared to leave the residence if still desired by the sheriff on behalf of the authorities. Mr Bell has stated the fact that he may leave is not to be regarded as an admission that he is no longer vicar at Cambridge. He still differs with the decision of the Civil Court.