DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS.

RELEASE OF CAPTIVE MISSIONARY EXPECTED. • ' (3y Telegraph—Press Association.) • - NELSON; Oct. 31. The secretary of the New Zealand Church Miisisiohairy Society has received a telegram from the Rev. C. I. Blan-chet-t; ©eoreftary of the’ mission at Canton, regarding the captured missionary, Miss Tobin. Her health is good. 'Hie officials are doing their utmost to ransom 1 her and her release is expected daily. " !jt ■' ! " . THEFT IOF BICYCLES. WELLINGTON, Oat. 31. A man with a. bad criminal history wast lw>w Chief Detective Ward described Freedriok Charles Richmond, a deal j?r, aged 27, who pleaded .guilty to stealing six bicycles, to the total value of £4O 10s. It was stated that ‘ lie_ took the bicycles home and after painting them a different colour and changing the parts, sold them. His wife was a decent hard working _ woman, and the accused practically lived on her. A ©entenc® of 12 months’' imprisonment was imposed. WORLD’S PRESS CONGRESS. TIMARIT, Oct. 31. Mr Robert Bell, president of the Press Congress of the World, announces that the next sessions' of the congress will be he’d at Ottawa, Canada, m Jnlv, 1929.