PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 576, 3 August 1909, Page 6

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

ASHHITRST STATION BROKEN : INTO. ■ (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.*, ;; Palmerston,. August 2. The whereabouts of. H. AVopdward, licensee of the' Masonic Hotel, Ashhurst, are shrouded! in .mystery.. He. left; Ashhurst g 'on..Thursday afternoon' for a prtspectbr's'-.camp ,atnthe'. Gorge, and nothing has been' heard of■ him. since. Inquiries snow' that, he did hot go; through to Woodville, and - he 'lias not returned this way. >A man named Sanders,'employed at the, limestone quarry at the other end of "the-Gorge, 'cycled.'through to. Ashhurst the same afternoon, _'and snould have niet "Woodward somewhere in the Gorge, but l he' saw' bo trace of the missing' man,' whom ■ he/knew' well. Giaye, fears' are. enter-', tained:,for'."his safety,:and, every effort is being made, to clear the mystery up. V ; - . Another . old Palmerston settler, Thomas ' Ellis,:passed away yesterday. Deceased was 84 years of age, and a New" Zealand colonist : for-over half a century. • attempt'was m a <3 e last night • 'to' 'rob 'the Ashhiii'st, railway 'A iwindow, was' opened; and 'thsf 'thieves then tried to blow open the, safe by Uynamite, but were- unsuccessful. A piece of :fusei/Was ; found in the office this morning, ;and the lock - was; so' 1 severely damaged: that'.it could, iiit be opened. So far as can be'ascertained, nothing of value is, misping from the office,' , jo ' that. the thieves 'got' littlo. for their trouble.' " .': ' ;