DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1932, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, April 30. ‘ The Makura, from an Francisco, has reported by wireless that she expects to arrive in the stream at Wellington at 1 p.m. on Monday. It is presumed that she has been delayed bj bad weather. Passengers and cargo will be transhipped here to the Maunganui, which will leave on Thursday for Sydney. The Makura will be laid up here for overhaul and survey. The Marama, which is at present out of commission at Auckland, will reenter the intercolnial service, taking the place of the Maunganui. The Make ra will be at Wellington until June 28, when she will leave for Auckland. She will sail from Auckland on June 30 for Sydney.

Reserved judgment is to be delivered in Wellington on Monday morning by the Election Court (the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Reed) which sat in Marton recently to hear the petition of James Hogan to upset the return of A. Stuart as M.P. for Rangitikei. AUCKLAND, April 30.

Before committing suicide in a gasfilled room at the back of his station ery shop at 315 Sandringham Road, William George Edmunds, aged 40, married, left insurance papers and a will in a parcel on his dressing table. The will had been completed and witnessed on the day before his death. CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. Forty pairs of men’s boots were amongst the loot secured by thieves who broke into the shop of Mr H. Dalton, 699 Gloucester Street. Mr Dalton estimates his loss at considerably more than £3O. There was no money in the shop, but the stock was heavily depleted by the intruders. Entry was gained to the shop, which is a lock-up building, by smashing the lock from the front door. NAPIER, April 30. “We’re quite comfortable, there’s no need for us to go out to sea,’’ was the brief survey made this morning by Captain Patterson, master of the Paua, of the facilities of Napier breakwater wharf, during the present heavy weather. While the inner harbour is unworkable, three vessels are berthed at the breakwater, while two more are steaming in the bay awaiting I accommodation at the wharf. By Monday it is expected there will be three | more arrivals, making a total of seven

vessels waiting to work at the breakwater, so soon as the dredge Kuioim leaves the wharf. The main roads south and north are blocked by flood waters, the rivers being in high flood as the result of the channels being narrowed by the earthquake of February last year. AUCKLAND, April 30. Advice that two of the men wanted in Auckland in connection with the charge of obtaining £l2OO from a North Auckland farmer last year have been arrested has been received from Australia by the police in Auckland. The cable advice states that the men wore arrested in Sydney and Brisbane respectively. Four men were concerned in the confidence trick by which the farmer was relieved of money on the representation that one of the men was an agent for a property at Ponsonby which would be purchased by a gasworks company. The men received cheques and withdrew the money from banks at Dargaville and Auckland and within two days joined a Sydney bound steamer at Wellington.