MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

UNCHARTED ROCK. •~r.. 7 avelli ngton, •. Sept. -26: Tims Secretary-General of the Post % office advises that the following message has been broadcasted by H. M.S. Laburnum, via R.M.S. Aorangi: “Inform any shipping bound to Lautoka that H.M.S. Laburnum has discovered a roclc;with 15 feet least water in position 5.4 miles, 109| degrees from Vatu M'Buta." DINARD HOTEL FIRE. V ;DINARD, Aug. 16. '• 'occurred“at 4 o’clock this* morning "at the Hotel Eden here. The hotel consists of three buildings joinech together. The fire started in a of the hotel containing the kitcheSns, and this section was gutted. The separating walls prevented the fire from spreading to the rest of the hotel and the flames were extinguished after two, I ; hours’ work by the fire brigade. Nobody' w*a > injured.

WOMAN LURED TO DEATH. NJ: l ■0 : BOMBAY, Aug 16. The' sessions judge at Belgaum (Bom bay residency) has .sentenced to death Basappa Rachappa for the murder of a woman named Bhndawji with whom he had a dispute concerning certain land's. ’ •••’ Bandawa was lured to a lonely field where she if as ; murdered. With Help of two trends Basappa hid her body in a \<ell. When dbodmpbsitiOn began the same friends helped Basappa to cut up the body, throwing the pieces among prickly pear shrubs. The murder was discovered through the owner finding two pieces of'skin floating on the waters /