DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

FILMS IN FLAMES. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONAUCKLAND, Nov. 3. A fire in the Grand Theatre operating box to-night destroyed nearly a complete programme of him and tiamaged the projector. No other damage was don© and no panic was caused. FARMER'S SUICIDE. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 3. At the inquest on Josepii Sharp (/l) retired farmer, found urowned n, the Waihopai River, the evidence showed that he was' worrying about finance, thougn there was no occasion to do so: An open verdict was returned. NO VISITING ATHLETES. , WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. At a meeting of the New’ Zealand Amateur Association Mr Weir (secretary of the Y ictorian Athletic Association) said that Parkinson, wlio represented the association at the Olympic -Games, had secured a promise' from Abraham and Lowe. to . make a trip to Australia and New Zealand next season. Scholz and Watson, were interested, but Nurmi could not give ; definite answer. it was reluctantly decided to abandon the idea of securing visiting athletes for this season. ESCAPED PRISONERS SENTENCED. TAUMARUNUJ, Nov. 3. George Ruddell Dale and George Napier Jorgenson YVigg, the two prisoners who escaped at Waimarino last week, appeared in court to-day. Dale was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and Wigg to two years, the. sentence to be cumulative with the present terms. LAUNCH TRAGEDY. AUCKLAND, Nov. 3. On a launch trip to Paratu, Coromandel, on Sunday, a son of G. D. Hansford, of the firm Hansford and Mills, contractors, Wellington, was drowned when a, dinghy containing four people, including the deceased, upset in a heavy -sea. Three others had a narrow’ escape from death.