GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 28 April 1924, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.}

WELLINGTON, April 28

A series of motor accidents occurred on the Kutt Road on Saturday, while race-goers were returning home. As the result of one at Kaiwarra the City Council's senior traffic inspector, Mr. W. Cross, now lies in hospital in a critical condition. He was endeavouring to check the excessive speed of cars, which were using the new bitumen road as a racing track, when he was knocked down by an Essex car and both legs were fractured.

AUCKLAND, April 28

At the Police Court Leslie Murray, aged 19, Ernest Hood, aged 20, William Eilis, aged 20, and Frank Ratcliffe, aged 21, admitted breaking and entering by night the ishop of a Chinese fruiterer, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. PAL>ME[RSTON N., April 28.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning Erura Fargeron, who allegedly shot at William Ross at Parewanui on Sunday, one bullet wounding Ross, was charged that he did attempt to murder Ross, and was remanded to appear here on May 7.

The missing men, Escott senior and

junior, who were reported on Saturday to be missing on the ranges between Eketahuna and Mangahao hydroelectric works, were met by., a search party on Saturday in the vicinity of the works. They stated that they

had been delayed by fogs and dirtyweather, but had taken shelter and' conserved their food supplies. They

had spent two nights without a fire, as their matches had got wet, and they

had little food for tbe latter part of the

journey. Escott is an experienced hushman. Dunnage, a member of the party who met the Escotts, left them to return to Mangahao to advise the camp and has not been seen since. It is believed that he has been drowned in one of the gorges. A search is, %fting made.