"STOP PRESS” NEWS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17028, 30 April 1923, Page 12

"STOP PRESS” NEWS

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.BANK SUSI'IN I!S PA Y.M K.NT. DELHI, April 29. The suspension of : K- A lliance Bank at Delhi has eau-ed consternaition, Thousands of Europeans, Doth individually and th roach firms, are alTec tdd. The hank' position has been regarded as m hut shaky for. some time, hut the Europeans anticipated Government backing to prevent its closing'. It i believed that within a few days it " ill l»e possible to pay investors fits y ,>« m.l of their deposits but then ; official announcement on this point. HAWKE’S DAY DACES. BURKE ME-MOIM AL HANDICAP— Zouave 1, Little Rive 2. Grotesque 3. OBITUARY. NEW PLYMOUTH,' April 30. The death is announced of Mr W. D. Webster, who was born on board the William Bryan, the first ship which arrived here, in March, 1841. WARREN PROTESTS INNOCENCE. PART'S, April 29. Warren denier that he has served sentences in Australia or has been the leader of a band of International crooks. He that his arrest humiliated his >• .■• i , i related to persons in inch j. Li, n in England. He alleges that A U the divorced wife of a forme i cal inet minister in a large British Dominion, and that her three brothers are Magistrates in London, Canada, and Egypt. DREDGE CAPSIZED. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 30. About noon, the Harbour Board’s Dredge, Thomas Kino, while engaged in depositing stone at the breakwater extension, capsized owing to a skip not working properly. Of the crew of five two reached the breakwater safely and a boat ’picked up (be other three, hut one of . i, a. J. Brockenshire, an engineer, and. an elderly man, was dead. Apparently he had been drowned.