OUR NEXT GOVERNOR.
A : REPORT. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR WILMOT FAWKES. Illy Tcleer»pH.-I'rc«j .4norl»tliin.-OopjrlEht.l ' . ■ Sydney, October 8. . The . "Sydney Morning Herald"- stated that it is'reported ■ in' seliii-offlcial ,circles' : thdt yiceAdmiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes will bo the next Governor of New Zcaldnd. POLICE LOCK-UP ! BROKEN INTO. • ■ ' AND A PRISONER, RESCUED. ; ' (! (By Telegraph—Press Association.)
Chrlstchiirc|i, October,B. During the night.or- ; early this moriiing. tho Kaiapoi, lock-up .near the-post olflco and police station was-broken into,, find a prisoner, named Gallagher, whom tho police had .arrested on the previous evening, for usliig obscene .language,, '•vas forcibly released. 1 Tho affair was. a most daring thing, as there: are threo. occupied .red* derices w\thin a chain or sp of. the lock tip.. Tho building also is a strong briok •> structure en-, closed within a high galvanised iron. .fence' at the refit of tho'obiirthouse. ::It;COntains, two cells; the doors of whieli are secured by iron .bars tfadlockedr 'and ''the otter door is locked .tin, a similar manner. • ■'. ' >',
: Constables Holmes and Smither, -who.. had placed the. man,in the cells,-,were.-about till aftermidnight, and tlio, raid and prison-break: ing ihust have' taken place between then- afld 6 a.m.- to-day. The reseat party is' believed to have included, three or,lour of, the prisoner's companions.. They forcibly,removed the fastenings of the doors,'.probably using a bar of iron or similar instrument. .■ :< ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5
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216OUR NEXT GOVERNOR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5
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