DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1929, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph--Per Press Association.)

A BOAT ACCIDENT,

TWO boys missing

NAPIER, Jan. 25. Two hoys, Hugh Douglas aged 15, and Gordon Macfarlane, aged 1(5, both of Napier, left "Wcstshore jetty in a sailing boat yesterday afternoon for a cruise around the inner harbour, and have not since been seen. Search parties went out last night and found the lyj.nl upturned on the other side of the harbour about midnight.. The oars and portion of the boat were found tin’s morning by the police searchers, but ir; sign of the missing -oovs. FORGERY CHARGES. NEW PLYMOUTH. January 2.7. George Frank Muggins pleaded guilty in the police court to a charge of forging and uttering at New Plymouth a chef|uc for C2O on the Hank of New Zealand at Cromwell, importing to lie signed by David Adie. Me was committed lor sentence to the Supreme Court at Dunedin. On a (barge of I'oiging the sanv name at Cromwell on .December IStli lie was remanded to appear at Dunedin on January SOtli. A CYCLIST SUSPENDED. (Received this dnv at 10.30. n.irO SYDNEY, Jan. 25. The Olympic cyclist, J. Standcii. who joined professional ranks a low weeks ago. has .boon suspended by the Union in Paris until -May. 1930. Prior to leaving for the Games Standee signed a paper promsing to return, his expenses a,mounting to about .03(50 in the event of his leaving amateur rank.-, within two years. The result of the suspension means that lie will be debarred from competing as a professional cyclist in any part of (he world during tbe period of suspcns'on.