A bloodthirsty fiend who nearly added Ransom to his list of slaughtered victims remains at large as Chicago hosts the 1893 Columbian Exhibition. To end the maniac’s reign Ransom refuses to play by the rules. However his hatred and fury can blind him to a more terrible truth. Original.
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New South Wales police say they hold “grave concerns” for a New Zealander who disappeared since last month.
Oliver Sims, 26, was last seen on September 18 at a university in Wollongong, where he worked in a function centre, NSW police said in a statement. .
Mr Sims, who lived in Wollongong, 82km south of Sydney, failed to return home after his shift and did not show up for work the next week.
“I was at home and he sent me a text message about 11pm, saying `Don’t wait up, I will be home late.
In the six weeks since he was last seen, his girlfriend of seven years, Pauline Cook, has retraced his steps, kept a constant vigil and made a public appeal for information to help find him. And that was the last I heard from him,” Ms Cook told the Illawarra Mercury newspaper. I love you’.
“I have been in contact with his family in New Zealand pretty much every day and they’re very distraught and extremely worried,” Ms Cook said.
Mr Sims, who did not have a driver’s licence, usually used public transport or got a lift home with a workmate. I’ve gone to places locally where he might be or go, and I’ve gone up to Sydney to places where we used to hang out.
“We’re all scared for his welfare and there’s not much we can do.”
Ms Cook and Mr Sims had talked of a future together that included marriage, and she said he was a “quiet and gentle kind of guy”.
“We’ve tried everything we can think of to find him.
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Family members have set up a “find Oliver Sims” Facebook group
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An Auckland man whose remains were identified this week, 22 years after he disappeared, probably took his own life, police say.
Lino Leger’s body was found in the Waitakere Ranges, west Auckland, by pig hunters in February last year.
He disappeared in 1987 after an argument with family, Henderson Detective Sergeant Roger Small said today.”
Mr Leger was never reported missing and a facial reconstruction played a major role in his identification.
“Unfortunately it appears he’s taken his own life.
Police were in the process of obtaining DNA from Mr Leger’s family at the time.
After extensive media coverage of the images, a flurry of friends and family contacted police, Mr Small said.
“The facial reconstruction. . .”
Mr Leger’s family have since buried his remains.was a fantastic assistance in this case – ultimately DNA confirmed the identity after the media coverage.
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Beach patrols are preparing for summer as Wellington braces for more bad weather, less than 24 hours after flooding and slips hit the region. . “It’s not pleasant.
Senior lifeguards had already started training and the water was freezing.”
Beach patrols will officially begin on November 29. [But] if you don’t train now you get behind.
Between about 8pm on Thursday and 9am yesterday, 69 millimetres of rain was dumped on Lower Hutt.
The open day comes as Wellington faces more rain, after a wild 24 hours.
The heaviest rain fell between 1am and 4am yesterday. MetService also recorded 35mm at the Kelburn weather station from 6pm on Thursday to 9am yesterday, and 28mm from 5pm at Wellington airport. Eastbourne was worst hit, with knee-deep flooding in about 20 houses.
The deluge caused slips and surface flooding throughout the region.
Council contractors helped clean up, but as many streams were on private property, people should contact insurance companies, she said.
A Hutt City Council spokeswoman said several streams had overflowed.
“A bank of water just came.
Muritai Rd resident Wendy Brown said the creek behind her house had been blocked, resulting in the water to flow down her driveway.”
The force of the water had cut a 60-centimetre-deep groove in her driveway, she said. At one point it was a good two to three feet deep that was coming down the hill.
The second slip smashed a building’s window.
The Open Polytechnic in Lower Hutt was hit by two slips yesterday morning, sending dirt and trees into buildings on the eastern side of the campus.
More flooding in Ngauranga Gorge about 10. Communications manager Doug Standring said no-one was injured and staff were relocated.
Some road flooding and slips around Evans Bay also caused commuter delays.30am yesterday sent stormwater rushing down the road “like a torrent”, a witness said.
Rain is expected to continue today for the lower North Island.
Rain is expected to continue today for the lower North Island. The Tararua Range and Taranaki could also experience heavy rain.
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NZ Bus will lift its lockout notice and resume services on Thursday morning “as a gesture of good will”, if the unions stop strike action and agree to reach a settlement, the company says.
But parents and school children still face another day of disruption tomorrow as a lockout of about 900 bus drivers in Auckland continues.
A statement from the company said it would remove the lockout notice but only on the “proviso that by 1:30pm tomorrow the unions also lift their strike notice and agree to work with the facilitator to reach a ratified settlement”, NZ Bus operations general manager Zane Fulljames said.
No NZ Bus services have run since then and the disruption became greater yesterday on the first day of the fourth school term. .
Students and around 80,000 other commuters have had to find alternative transport to get to school or work.
The Auckland Combined Unions will meet with their members tomorrow at 11am to discuss developments.Most travellers had coped by switching to trains, taking buses provided by other companies, car pooling or using their own cars.An offer by the drivers to drive pupils for no pay was rejected by the company as “at best misguided and is at worst mischievous”.But yesterday, with pupils returning after the school holidays, many of the buses used for public services last week were switched back to school routes.co.Frustrated passengers have been told to go to the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (Arta) website maxx.Arta spokeswoman Sharon Hunter said it had scraped together a skeleton bus service and the trains into the city were packed.nz for alternatives.She said the daily subsidy of $160,000 paid to NZ Bus had been suspended while the buses were not running.She said the daily subsidy of $160,000 paid to NZ Bus had been suspended while the buses were not running.”If this dispute is not settled, I will be calling on Arta to start the process of terminating the existing contracts and finding someone else who will deliver the services that Auckland expects and pays for.”Like any commercial contract, NZ Bus contracts can be terminated for non-performance,” Mr Lee said.”If we terminated NZ Bus completely then we’d leave a 700-bus gap overnight, and we couldn’t do that to the public,” Ms Hunter said.”However, Arta spokeswoman Sharon Hunter said it would take up to two months to terminate the contract and it would be impossible to replace the bus service in that timeframe.
.NZ Bus spokeswoman Megan McSweeney said Mr Lee’s comments were “not helpful”
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A senior public servant has been committed for trial facing an assault charge.
At a depositions hearing before two Justices of the Peace in Wellington District Court today, the man, whose name and occupation have been suppressed, denies the charge following an incident in central Wellington on August 29 last year.
Prosecuting lawyer Paul Dacre told the court the teenage victim had taken credit cards belonging to the defendant’s wife and withdrawn $700 from an ATM, spending $200 of that on a cellphone, cigarettes and a bag.
Once in the car he punched the victim five or six times, with one blow hitting him in the head, he said.
On finding the victim the defendant grabbed him and walked him back to his car, threatening to break his legs if he tried to run away, Mr Dacre said.
Four witnesses, including two teenagers and two shop staff from across the road, today gave varying accounts of seeing the defendant strike the victim about the upper body while the pair were in the car.
When spoken to by police the man denied the threat and punches.
Some said they witnessed just a couple of blows while another said he saw up to 10 blows with a closed fist.
What they thought were punches could have been the man trying to get the bag off the boy and lock the car doors.
The defendant’s lawyer, Mike Antunovic, questioned the witnesses’ recollections and statements about the event. .
The witnesses were spoken to by police earlier this year, up to nine months later.
The defendant will next appear in Wellington District Court on January 19 for a jury trial call over.
Mr Antunovic conceded there was a prima facie case to answer.
Arguments for continued name suppression will be heard before a District Court judge before Christmas.
Arguments for continued name suppression will be heard before a District Court judge before Christmas.
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Winds of up to 140kmh will batter New Zealand today and tomorrow, with heavy rain forecast for the northern part of the North Island tomorrow.
The Metservice is predicting northwesterly winds for Wellington, Wairarapa and Marlborough, rising to severe gales with rain expected tomorrow.Severe northwest gales should also hit Canterbury tomorrow afternoon and evening.In Northland, northern Taranaki, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Taupo and Taumarunui showers will increase to heavy rains tomorrow night.Otago and Southland may also experience severe northwesterly gales tomorrow morning. .The Automobile Association warned motorists travelling on State Highway 57 overnight on Sunday that 100 to 150mm of rain was expected in the Tararua Ranges.In Otago, the risk of avalanche has closed SH94 between Lower Hollyford and Milford Sound from Saturday until Sunday morning.
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An online sex shop has sold New Zealand’s first gold sex toy for a big figure sum to a South Island woman.
The 18 karat gold vibrator, called Yva by Lelo, was custom made by a Swedish company and flown in especially for the anonymous buyer.
The modernist sex toy sold for $2,229 and is only the second sold in Australasia.co.
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“This really is the pièce de résistance of all vibrators so we were surprised to find that it had been sold during a time when money is supposedly so tight”.nz brand manager Natalie Blakemore said the company had been “stunned” to sell the piece in the midst of the recession.
“Every day you hear messages of doom and gloom about the recession, but we are yet to feel the effects.
Ms Blackmore said the secret to the company’s success was the growing popularity of buying online along with the privacy and discretion it offered customers.”
The company had experienced 130 per cent growth in sales since last year, she said.
“In these difficult times, no matter how tough it’s been at the office, it’s good to go home to a nice bed — and a little intimacy.
“On a more personal level, we’re fortunate that the products we sell make people happy and increase the level of closeness and pleasure in their lives.