INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.! , WHAKATANE, this day. Edward Marshal], 16, was drowned

in the Orini . river, a few miles out i f roin Whakutane, yesterday morning., He was last seen alive at .11 a.m., chop- j ping firewood on tho bank. Being : missed at home, search was made fori tho boy, whose clothes wct-j found l>y i the river: About two this afternoon j tho body was found in ten feet of wator. Marshall was a good swimmer. It is surmised he was seized with cramp. TAUMARUNUI, this day. A head-on collision occurred between two railway jiggers .on a railway bridge half a mile north of Taitmarunui at ,10.30 on Saturday night. As a result, a cadet, F. J. Gardiner, was throAvn over tho sido of tho bridge,' and is now \in hospital in an uncon : scious condition. WELLINGTON, this day. A body was found in the harbor last, night floating near the Pipitea wharf. : There was nothing to prove its iden- j tity, but the deceased appeared to bo a' man of about 45 to 50 years of age,' clean shaven? and with fair hair. The only person reported to the police as missing was seen yesterday, whereas the body had been in tho water 24' hours. ( In tho Supremo Court, before Judge Salmond, Gavin Brown, for breaking and ,onteriiig at Fcilding, was sen-1 teiieed to one year; Herbert Doughty, ■ theft at Hamilton; two years; Fred Nick Ellis, falsa pretences, at Wanga.ntii, two years; Ambrosp Joseph Lipinski, incest (counsel said he had been tempted by an unscrupulous woman),j three months. Hubert Reginald Holdawuy, ex-school-' master at Nelson, was sentenced by Air. Justice Salmopd in the Supremo Court On three charges of indecent assault on males, tO- five years' imprisonment. The Judge, heard a statement as to the excellent character borne by prisoner, which he raid was undoubted, but such a case could only be dealt with in one way. The case was one of the saddest that had ever ccmo under his notice. • BLENHEIM, this day. • Obituary: .John Duncan, ex-M.P, for Wairau, aged 76. He was the eldest son of Mr. A. S. Duncan, ono of the pioneers of Marlborough, and held many public positions. CHRISTCHUECTI, this day. Sale reported: Farmers' Co-op., Gj per cent., inscribed, 1930, £73 15s. On 'change: Goldsbrough, Mort, 48s (3d; Ward Brewerv,. 445. HOKITIITA, this day. The British and Intercolonial Exhibition was brought to a successful conelusion on Saturday night in the presence of a. record attendance. The closing function was marked by addresses from Messrs. Butler (president), the Hon. G. M. Thomson, Perry (Mnyfr), Dull' (County chairman), and Schmitt (Industries Department). Congratulatory messages on the success of the exhibition were received from various - Canterbury associations and the Duncdin Exhibition Company. The Hon. Mr. Thomson presented the Snodcrass Cup to. tho winner, Miss Mary Korridgo, for an essay on tho province of Wostland. The general tone of the speeches was most congratulatory on the splendid success achieved.