NEWS ITEMS OF THE DOMINION

Grey River Argus, 30 December 1914, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS OF THE DOMINION

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"TIRED OF IT ALL."

THAMES, Dec. 29

On the morning of the day before Christmas, Alfred Davey, a single man (42) a miner, suffering fTom miners' complaint was heard ■to say: "I am sick of it all and I will end it o-n Christmas Eve." Since that date he has been massing, and there was no trace until to-day, when his dead body was found in the distict reservoir. At the'inquest a verdict of suicide was return ea'.

RACEHORSE DESTROYED. THAMES, Dec. 20. As the result of injuries - received while, training in Auckland, hurdiler Ruffy was shot.

ALELGED CARD SHARPING

THAMES, Dec. 20

A case of alleged card sharping is alleged on the stteameor Wakatere, bringing .passengers to the Thames races. As a result Thomas Hunter and Charles Barker were lodged in gaol. Oine of the accused had nearly ;£ioo in his possession.

GOLD REEF FOUND. THAMES, Dec. 29. There is a reported gold find at Wanganmata, said to be a new Teef. It assays up to 20 pounds to the ton. Wellington and NeJson people are said to be interested. The situation is near where a poor coal deposit was found some time back.

The steel arrow used by -German military aviators is an interesting reversion to mediaeval methods. But the most remarkable of hand-thrown steel missiles is the disc of the Sikhs. Formerly this was the most terrible weapon of that warlike people, though various Hindu races have known it for centuries. Veshnu himself is sometimes represented holding a disc in each hand. The disc weighs eight ounces; it is a sixth of an inch thick, and its diameter is eight inches. The edge is as keen as a raaor. It is thrown .as one throws flat pebbles to make ducks and drakes. Its trajectory is flat, and its rotation during the flight causes a terrible wound. Sir Kalph Payne Gallwey has experimented with it. He has thrown it two hundred yards,. and it can sever an inch-thick branch without losing any apreciable velocity. In old days tlie Sikh soldier, carried a dozen.