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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 8

Mr. Compton Mackenzie, a Scottish Nationalist candidate, has been elected , rector of Glasgow University.—A. & N.Z.C.A. v Mrs. S. M. Groom, one of -the few remaining original settlers of the Grmondville district, celebrated 'her eightieth birthday last week. Airs. Groom has now, completed her liftylith year of residence in Ormondville. While being moved from the Nelson, wharf, where she lias been tied up for' some time, to other moorings, the Anchor Shipping Co. ! s steamer .Regains ran aground oil a mud flat, and will probably have to remain there until the middle, of next liionth, when the next spring tide is due. When Ernest Albert Cooper, a railway clerk, arrived .at the Rotorua police station on Thursday morning to report' that his house had been rifled by a cat burglar during the night, he found that a man had been arrested 10 minutes after the burglary, had made a statement admitting the tlioft, and was, already in the lock-up, A smart arrest by Constable Kelly was responsible for this up-to-the-minute police work. On the beat, just 'before 3 o’clock in the morning, the constable had just Visited the railway station when as he returned ho noticed a man flattening himself; against a telegraph pole in an Obvious endeavor to make 'himself inconspicuous. Suspicious of this behaviour, the .constable used his torch to find that the man was wearing double socks on his hands, and that lie had his stocking feet loosely thrust into unlaced Shoes.' T'iio prowler was unable to satisfy the constable of his reasons for being abroad' at that hour, and when he was taken to the police station, finally admitted that he had just left a house behind the, railway station, where he had entered' a room and rifled the pockets of a pair of trousers hanging on g door.