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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 6

When a Arc occurred in tho office of Paterson, Michel and Co., Hokitika, at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning, the brigade made a good save. Tho outbreak was confined to tho office building and the damage Is estimated at £IOO. Little damage was done to the stock.

Preceded for nearly 30 seconds by a slight quivering, quite a distinct earthquake shock was noticeable at Palmerston North at 10.26 o’clock yesterday morning. Although its intensity was not severe and it was only a slight rocking motion the movement lasted for fully a minute.

The negotiations between tho Southland Electric Power Board and Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates with reference to tho payment of interest to London bondholders were continued at Wellington on Saturday. Interviewed afterwards, Mr. Coates said that as a result of tho meeting ho was hopeful of the matter being satisfactorily settled.

The trip of H.M.A.S. Canberra from Sydney to Whaugarei was marked by tragedy. At 7 o’clock on Monday night Francis Flanagan, yeoman of signals, aged 31, a native of New South Wales, committed suicide on tho upper deck by shooting himself with a service title. Ho was buried at sea next morning. A court of inquiry will meet later.

“Starving in the midst of plenty,” was exemplified in tho city in a new form one day roccntly, under circumstances quite diverting to tho few who witnessed the incident. A bonzino “tanker,” a lorry of the typo used by tho petrol companies for replenishing tho bowsers, found itself in tho anomalous predicament of being stranded in tho street because it had run out of benzine! Finally a fellow-tank happened along and was able to supply tho deficiency, and tho purveyor of tho mighty atom was able to move on its way once more.

A novel method of rapidly communicating the football score at tho Oval to mates watching thoir favourite senior players on tho ground immediately behind the main grandstand at the Showgrounds was adopted By a band of youthful schoolboys on Saturday. “If Old Boys score again heave a stone on the roof of the stand” urged the leader but although a member agreed to the suggestion tlio stone never heralded the glad tidings—for Old Boys failed to live up to their youthful supporters’ hopes.

A short trip to Suva preparatory to his departure for Dunedin has been decided upon by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, the loader of the trans-Ant-arctic flight expedition, and he loft by the Mariposa on Saturday afternoon, returning by the Monterey on September 8. Ho is then going to Christchurch, Mount Cook and Dunedin. Mr. Ellsworth said ho expected that the supply ship Wyatt Earp would reach Dunedin about October 1. His plans provided for the return of the expedition to New Zealand about mid-January, enabling him to be back in Hcrv York early in April.

The Japanese Government’s training ship Shintoku Maru has arrived at Auckland after a voyage of 6035 miles from San Diego (California). She carries 70 cadets in training for the mercantile marine. She will stay for the week-end and then sail for Kobe. The vessel is a four-masted barquentine, with auxiliary steani engines, and under full sail spreads 27,907 squaro feet of canvas. Sko can log 13 knots without the engines. Most of the cadets know some English and had heard of New Zealand’s scenery, climate and football. One politely inquired if the All Blacks were playing at Auckland on Saturday.

The Now Zealand Boxing Council, at its meeting on Friday night, appointed Mr. P. H. Donoghue, honorary instructor of the Mirimar Boxing Club, to be the trainer of the New Zealand boxing team which will visit Brisbane after the New Zealand championships. The council appointed the following officials for the New Zealand championships being held in Blenheim on September 7, 8 and 9. Referees:— Messrs. M. McLean (Auckland), L. Cotter (Blenheim), A. E. Tall (Invercargill). Judges: North Island, Messrs. A. Curtayne (Wellington), D. Ncwbegin (Hastings); South Island, Messrs. R. Fulcher (Dunedin), W. E. Mouldey, (Christchurch.)

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