DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

GISBORNE SUPREME COURT (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE,, Aug. 25. Bra.i Te Toroa, for the forgery of li.Ts brothers name was admitted to probation for three years. Samuel Rattray, for forgery and uttering, was ordered reformative detention for 12 months. Frederick Chilcott a,n.d Peter ‘Noiiberg, were found guilty of theft front the person. Sentence was deferred. John Andrew Arkle, who pleaded guilty to theft of Government moneys, was admitted to .probation for two years.

ALLEGED THEFT OF MOTOR CAR

AUCKLAND, A.ug. 25. At the Police Court, Gustav Hansen, Ernest John Brasting and James Harold O’Brien were charged with converting to their own use a motor car valued at £3OO, the property of George R. Metcalf. They were remanded till August 27. The chief detective stated that detectives had taken possession of sufficient explosives to blow all the business houses, in Auckland to pieces. He opposed bail, which was refused. FOXTON TRAGEDY. PALMERSTON N., Aug. 25. The search for the remaining bodies of the victims of the drowning tragedy fit the Manawatu Heads was continued all day yesterday and this morning without result. Advice received by relatives here yesterday to the effect that the bodies of the two boys had been found was incorrect. The weather on the coast is very rough. AN EXCITING FAREWELL. AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. Mrs. Hilda Jackson was saying goodbye to a isailor on the Idaho at 1.35 o’clock this morning when the “jackie’ overbalanced. Mns. Jackson tried, to draw him back and both fell into the harbour. A strong current swept, them round the stem of the warship. James Mooney saw the mishap from a launch, plunged in fully clothed and assisted Mrs. Jackson till -all three were located by searchlight and recovered by a boat from the Idaho. They were attended by a doctor from that ship. Mrs. Jjaickson was greatly exhausted and Mooney is suffering as a result of the struggle. Both were subsequently sent to the.ir homes ashore.

DEATH OF A SCHOOL TEACHER.

DUNEDIN, Aug: 25. At the inquest on the death of Walter fPhomais Young, a schoolteacher, a .single man who was found hanged, the coroner found that death was due to suicide while in poor health, through overstudy. YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH. NAPIER, Aug. 25. At the inquest to-day concerning the death of Alice Alelionq aged 23, a verdict was returned that death was due to general peritonitis. The young woman came from Hastings and died at the Niapier hospital. Evidence .showed that the deceased h.ad given birth to a child, but the body could not be found. A young man admitted burning a mattress because it bore bloodstains.