ROMANCE EXPLODED.
BACK FROM THE DEAD. DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE. A JOYFUL RE-UNION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received March 29, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. The novelist Clifford Collinson, who has often wirelessly immortalised Bondi, Coogee and Manly as providing the best surf bathing in the world, describes in his book, "Life and Laughter 'Midst the Cannibals," how "a splendid fellow, captain Raxtcr Nicholson, once district officer in the Solomon Islands, blew out his brains in Melbourne. Mr Collinson's telephone rang on Monday morning, and a voice said - . "This is Nicholson speaking. - ' Mr Collinson, surprisedly: "Whatl Not the chap that committed suicide in Melbourne?" Captain Nicholson replied: "Yes, I'm the one." Mr Collinson: "Well, where arc you speaking from?" Captain Nicholson, laughingly: "A very earthly spot known as Bayswater." Both had a hearty- laugh at exploding (lie romance woven around the supposed evil spell of a native "devil devil totem" which Mr Collinson possessed. Captain Nicholson disclosed that he had been in the motoring business in Melbourne and Adelaide for the last two years. He was offered a job at Rabaul, but thought London more attractive. The pair arranged to relive the South Seas romance at an early West End lunch party.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17365, 29 March 1928, Page 7
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