DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14006, 10 March 1920, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) , AUCKLAND, March 9. .-. A burglarious entry was made iast night into the office of the Fletcher Steel Construction AVorks. A small safe was removed to a vacant "Section adjacent, and there blown up with gelignite. The noise made was so loud that it was heard" by constables beat in Karangahape road. The door of the safe was torn completely off, and carried some distance. Apparently. the noise frightened the burglars, at? they decamped without even abstracting* the cash and contents of the safe, which onlv totalled 255. CHRISTCHURCH, March 9, ' At a meeting of the Buildings Committee'. of the Christchurch Returned! Soldiers' Association, it was reluctantly: decided tor advise the Govemor-Geie-ra.l that the committee wouin not press for the Prince- of Wales to open the now club buildings, as there was no chance of the building being finished in time for the visit of his Royal Highness. However, the hope was expressed that the Prince would lay; the ■ foundation, stone of of Memories. WANGANUI, March 9. While cleaning a furnace at the gasworks, stoker John Smith, 52 years of age, residing at Gonyille, received severe scalds, and subsequently died "at the hospital. The- aocidenjt was notseen, .but Smith was found severely injured, and was conveyed to the' hospital. ' . , '■ GISBORNE. March 9. The death is announced of Colonel G. J. Winter, an old resident of Poverty; Bay, and a Maori war'veteran. Deceased, who was 76 years_ of age, was well known in military circles in the district, and at various times "was officer commanding the J Battery, .itidi later ..officer commanding the East Mounted Rifles. .""".. ',. THAMES, March 9. , . A man named -James .Donovan, a joiner of Paerba,' was killed last night after the iraces. About 600 yard's from, the racecourse .gates he hailed one motor which Avas full and passed bv. He got in front of-another, and as he did so slipped and fell, the car going. over hie-'nead! and' neck. He was re-__ moved to the hospital, but death followed quickly. ...-,-. . ■ ■ WHAKATANF, March 10. The two prisoners" who escaped by seizing, a policeman's motor car, were recaptured at Rotoiti, bound, for Rotorua.. One was . a Maori, whose sentence for theft wo»ld expire next. Saturday, and the. other- was a oakeha named Brastings,. awaiting trial, for theft. ' The car was recovered undamagcV '. .■■"•■ ■''■<■ ■ ■''■"