TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19702, 1 February 1926, Page 8

TELEGRAMS.

(Peie United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, January 31. The disappearance of Raymond H Lewins, aged 25 years, a surveyor attached to the Takapuna Borough Council staff, is causing anxiety. He was last seen on Thursday afternoon at the ferry wharf. Large parties of Takapuna residents are scouring the district, but so far without success. There is still no news of 'J. W. Hall, indent agent, of Auckland, who disappeared from Karekare, on the West Coast, last Thursday. Hall, who is about (10 years of age, was a visitor to a Karekare boarding-house, and about 4 o’clockon Thursday afternoon he left the house \to go surf bathing. He did not return to the house, and nothing has been seen or heard of him since. Fears are entertained for the safety of an elderly man named Michael Middleton, who is thought to have been drowned this morning when fit 'ling from a dinghy in the harbour. The empty dinghy was found tied to the rudder of the hulk Gladbrook, with the oars in the rowlocks and a fishing line set. Middleton was an employee of the Harbour Board. It is understood lie borrowed the board’s dinghy and left his watch and bosun’s whistle in a shed from which he took oars. GISBOKNE, January 30. The Gisborne Oil Proprietary Subsidiary Company of the Taranaki oilfields has decided to commence boring operations in the Gisborne district. A drilling plant has been obtained from America, and is now in Auckland waiting transhipment. The exact locality of the first bore has not definitely been decided, but this will be regarded as more or less of a test well. Mr Charles N. Taylor, who has been in charge of the leasing activities of the Gisborne company, has been appointed assistant manager in the Taranaki company, hut will remain in Gisborne in charge of affairs there. GPLYMOUTH, January 30. Rupert Dunford, a labourer, of Nelson Creek, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to a charge of dual voting at the recent Westland election. He voted at the Ngahere and Kamaka booths. The defendant said he was under the influence of drink when voting the second time. He was committed for sentence at the next sitting of the Supreme Court.