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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 14

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BIGAMY ABMZTnS. WELLINGTON, February 18. Zoe M’Cutcheon Pahl was committed for sentence to-day gin pt charge of bigamy to which she pleaded guilty. It was stated tliat she lived with her husband u i the end of last November and then, following a quarrel, she wept off with a man named Fisher, whom she had bigamously married. The husband, in evidence, said that he had taken his wife back and they were now living together. His vjlfe was advised to notify tho -polic® and to his knowledge did so. Evidence that accused was of good character was given. NEW GOLD COuWfBT. INVERCARGILL. February 18. A party of geologists consisting of Professors Benson (Dunedin 1 Bertrand (Auckland) King (Wellington) and Keble (Melbourne) have returned from a six weeks' expedition in Preservation and Chalky Inlets, in the West Coast sounds, by the Ketch Scout, bringing a Large quantity of specimens, for analysis. Professor Keble said: “From my vesearcbe* I have come to the conr elusion that there is untold wealth In auriferous metals in the Sounds* but to wrest the treasure from Nature, the work would have :td be carried out under scientific methods. The indications and reefs niet with are exactly similar ito the gold bearing area of Australia. In .119 part of New Zealand is there such promise of rich results being obtained as in the vicinity of preservation Inlet.” He suggests that a number of men should be employed making tracks to open up the inaccessible regions.

nsNDisE anrjtpMk LONDON, February 17. A Blackheath jury returned a verdict of murder against an unknown person at the inquest on Louise Maud Steele, aged J 8, whose body was found on January 23 in ; football ground at Blacklioatli. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, in .giving evidence, said that death was diio to strangulation, and expressed the opinion that the teeth marks on the body were made after strangulatiou. The victim was also kicked as sKe lay dying. The Coroner commented that nothing had been discovered to help tile police trace the murderer, w'h.. obviously was a violent maniac and possibly was unaware that he had committed the deed. > i- , Amt • An earlier cable stated that the body was unclothed, and bore many stabbing wounds. The body ’was mutilated as Jack the Ripper mutilated, and a deep red mark round the neck suggested strangling. AViiile part of the body appeared to have been slashed with a razor the head was bashed in. Tlio woman's lei t hand was tightly clenched pa a shoe. The other shoe was found fifteen yards away. The police believe that the body was carried to Blackheath in a motor-car. „ t.Lj; l ** late news. Late news will ve found on Pages 7, 8 and 13. . i TEST CASE OVER SWEEPBT4fI. LONDON, February 17. The “ Daily Express ” says that proceedings art pending in the Court to test the legality of the action of the Home Office in prosecuting persons selling Irish Sweepstake tickets. The issue raised is. briefly: “Have the English authorities the right and power to interfere in airy domestic scheme legally sanctioned by the Irish Free State and approved by the King, through the Governor-General ?” NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. NAPIER, February IS. An interesting sidelight in connection with the re-const ruction of Napier is the fact that the “Napier Daily Telegraph,” which, on the day following the earthquake, appeared as a one page sheet no bigger than a piece of ordinary notepaper, appeared on Saturday with a four page issue of ordinary newsprint size and from to-day, commenced to issue an eight page „ _