DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 January 1926, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

BURGLARIES AT CHRISTCHURCH. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 2. Burglars at Sumner during the past few days visited a two-storey house during the absence of the owner, and stole "household furnishings valued at £IOB. REGATTA INCIDENTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 2. Four boats’ crews were swamped at Akaroa yesterday during the regatta, and the men had to be picked up by launches. A coxswain was nearly drowned, but recovered after treatment. The weather was veVy heavy. YACHTING. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 2. The fifth trial at Lyttelton for the Sanders Cun was won by Secret and the sixth by Linnet. SERVICEABLE CHRISTMAS GIFT. WAIHI, Jan. 2. The fortunate winner of the £3OOO prize in connection with the colossal £SOOO art union, drawn at Dunedin last week, is Mrs Healy, a resident of Waihi. and n widow with three chiltl re n. WAIHI ITEMS. WAIHI, Jan. 2. During the holidays an oil launch owned by W. H. Ross was destroyed by fire’ in Wliangamata harbour. A party was starting out on a voyage when the engine oack-fircd. An effort to extinguish the subsequent fire failed, the craft ultimately sinking in ten feet, of water. Meanwhile the party got ashore safelv.

Mrs. McGrath, aged 41, the wife of a fisherman at Tanner’s Point, Ivatikati, died yesterday as a result of poisoning, self-administered. Visitors on New rear’s Day, including resident campers at Waihi beach, the popular seaside resort, of the district, numbered over three thousand. NELSON FATALITIES. NELSON, Jan. 2. Lucy Olson, a single woman, 25 years of age, met. her death undier tragic circumstances at. Thorpe yesterday, where she had accompanied a picnic party from town. While at a farmhouse' she got into a trap standing in the sliedi and two of the party, in a spirit of fun, got hold of the shafts and was pulling the vehicle out when the deceased struck her head against a beam in the doorway and dislocated her neck, dying in a. few minutes. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. An elderly man named William. Lake was found dead in a city hotel yesterday morning- He had not been in the best of health.