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Northern Advocate, 16 August 1935, Page 2

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Pinal News Flashes ABYSSINIA PREPARING. The Havas News Agency’s Addis Ababa representative estimates that Abyssinia's northern army numbers 425,000. A Geneva message says; a League import shows that Abyssinia is constructing road's at Jina Dessai and Jihur. and is developing air ports at Akaki and elsewhere. BLOWN TO PIECES.—A Portuguese military aeroplane was blown to pieces at a height of 7000 feet, when a 20-pound bomb it was carrying exploded. The bodies of the occupants were picked up 2000 yard's apait and were identifiable only by their identity bracelets. CRIME OF THEFT.—When a young man came before' the Auckland Police Court today and pleaded guilty to theft, while on probation, the magistrate. Mr Wyvern Wilson, said the number of such cases was very disquieting. “Criminal statistics show that the only class of crime which is on the increase is that of theft, and also that this increase occurs among the rising generation more than among men of mature years. This is a very grave state of affairs,” he said, sentencing the prisoner, James de Grey, to two years in a Borstal institution. , “DEAF, DUMB AND BLlND.”—Refusing to see newspaper representatives who wished to interview him on his return, to New Zealand this morning, Mr Paul Verschaffelt, until a few weeks ago Public Service Commissioner, sent a message by his secretary that he wished to “hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing.” “Mr Verschaffelt has returned 1 as a private citizen.” stated his secretary. “He desires to make no statement.”

TRUCK DERAILED.—One truck of the Wellington-Napier goods train, which reaches Napier early in the morning, was derailed this morning, on a loop about 100 yards on the south side of the Longlands flag; station, two miles south of Hastings. There was evidently no obstruction on the line and the cause of the mishap has not yet been ascertained. Neither man nor line was damaged, except to a trifling extent. MORE GAMING CASES.—As a sequel, to two raids yesterday by Detec-tive-Sergeant McLeod, of Gisborne, and Sergeant Miller, of Opotiki, four men appeared before Messrs. G. A. Brabant and W. A. Moody, J.P.’s, in the Whakatane Court, yesterday afternoon. FALLS OF SNOW—Heavy falls of snow have occurred at The Chateau intermittently since 10 a.m. yesterday, and ; snow is still falling this morning.