NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3240, 9 December 1930, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

An overturned boat was found on Sunday at the entrance to. a creek four miles south of Waipiro Bay township. It is feared that three natives, Hamiana Walker, Whare Koko and Manahera Paurakau, who were fishing 1 , have been drowned. British troops were in conflict with Afridis on the Aka Khel Plain on Thursday. Captain Henry St. Clair Ogilvie-Will, adjutant of Rattray’s Sikhs; was killed by an almost spent bullet and a private of the Seaforth Highlanders was wounded. Four of the six criminal maniacs who escaped from a New York State institution on Tuesday, were recaptured in an apartment where they were harboured by the sweetheart of one of them. Detectives fought for 20 minutes to overcome the madmen, two of whom were armed. The others are still missing. A Russian workman named Tchanoukvadze walked unostentatiously beside the Georgian ex-Minister, Louise Ramickdini, who was proceeding to a political meeting in the Place d’ltalie, and quietly drew a revolver. He fired twice at Ramickdini, kiling him instantly. Tchanoukvadze was thereupon arrested. A 15-year-old Hindu girl was killed after a plucky stand against armed brigands, who raided a moneylender’s shop in the village near Lahore. The attackers were resisted by the villagers, two of whom were shot and wounded. The girl hurled bricks at the raiders till she was overpowered and shot dead. The Sunday News says it understands that there is a strong possibility that Sir Isaac Isaacs, the newly appointed Australian Gover-nor-General, may be raised to the peerage. Three hundred Chinese were drowned in the Yangtse River near Hankow when a native steamer, the Sientan, on the way to Changsha, foundered. The passengers became panic-stricken on the overloaded vessel, which capsized.