DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 23 August 1934, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

NAPIER TRAGEDY. NA PI EK, August 21. Three men passing through the Botanical Gardens last evening saw a man apparently in a drunken state. After reaching home, one of the men, Joseph Alexa ndei'. fell uneasy and returned, to the spot. The man previously seen was then dead, duo, it is believed, to I hi* effects of poison. 'i’l:e dead man was named William Alfred Knapp, a telegraphist, on a pension. He was aged 67 yea is. FIRE AT TIMARU. TIM A KU. August 22. Fire early this morning in the premises of Paleman, pastrycook. Stafford Street, completely destroyed port’’.)!i of the building and ,-i considerable amount of stork, the damage being estimated at £2OO. The outbreak was discovered by a baker of another lirni. who was going to work at 3.30. Tin* Fi:.e P»rigade was promptly on the scene, and quickly got the dames under control. Included amongst the articles destroy* I was an electrical mixer. valued at £6O. ELLSWORTH EXPEDITION. DUNEDIN, August 21. With tin* repaired monoplane Polar Star, and Sir Tlubeii Wilkins and Lieutenant Berni Balrheu aboard, the .EHuworth Expedition ship-, Wyn.tt Earp, returned last night from the i.'orth. Dr. Lincoln 'Ellsworth is expected to reach Dunedin on S(*ptember> 7th and definite plans 'will then be announced for- the tri [> to Deception Island, which is (*xp<*('ted to take forty days. NEXT N.Z. GOVERNOR. DUNEDIN, August 22. In speaking al the British publicschools luncheon at Dunedin, the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, said that the newspapers had not quite correctly interpreted his public reference at Christchurch to the appointment of his successor, and 1t had, he feared, caused some embarrassment to the Government, which he much regretted. All he desired to convey, in view of a suggestion that the recommendation to the King came from the Ministers at Home, was that, in view of the status of equality enjoyed by the Dominion, the actual recommendation came from the head of the Dominion Government, and that such a. had, during the last few days, in the case of his successor, been put forward for His jMajesty’s