NEWS AND NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1778, 1 March 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A four-roomed house in Smith Street, Frankton, owned and occupied by Mr Norman Frost, Was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. While trimming a hedge, William Pedlar Girles, aged 70 years, an old resident of Taranaki, collapsed and died of heart failure.

-Albert Edgar Sanders, a clerk in the Savings Bank at Christchurch, aged 28, was sentenced to a year’s reformative detention for the theft of £2O from the Savings Bank at Dunedin on August 28. The “Snap” Season is again in full swing. See our fine range of Kodaks and all photographic requirements. McLennan’s Pharmacy, Bora Street. ’Phone 27.*

.Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said that the Government was not disposed to invite Russian plenipotentiaries to come to London with a view to negotiating a settlement of outstanding questions.

Mr Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons that it was impracticable at presnt to withdraw more than one or two Indian regiments from Palestine. Reduction of the garrison was under consideration.

Order by mail if you cannot call. The promptest attention given and satisfaction assured. McLennan’s Pharmacy, Rora ■'■(Street, ’Phone 27.* Princess Mary’s son will be christened at Goldsborough Parish Church, near Knaresborough, on Palm Sunday, which will synchronise with the visit of the King and Queen to Knowsley Hall, the Earl Derby’s sent, for the Grand National.

The police in Paris have arrested an Italian named Algeri, aged 22, who stolo 1541 bof Russian and Turkish gold from a train from Constantinople in December. When the train arrived in Paris 44 boxes in which the gold was sealed were found to contain bricks. The arrest was effected through the woman associate of Algeri being found in a smal hotel in Paris with 100,000 francs worth of Russian and Turkish coins.

The doctor’s orders are faithfully carried out in our prescription department. Only the purest drugs are used, and promptitude is guaranteed. McLennan’s Pharmacy, Rora Street, ’Phone 27*