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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 25 February 1914, Page 8

[' A fox chased by tho Essex hounds took re/'-So in the coalhotiso at Ford ' End Vvcjnragci Ifslshedy and was 'discovered fitiffly wedged between tiw top of tliir coil ■ mifl the rcof. The tiles liad to.lx removed to liberate it. .At 4 h01.4 in coftnection . with the application to tho. Board of Trade for in't'iuission to, dredge. M. Iver Bay f«r tin. i.t. iy.us eiateil that there »•<« in tho bay at ptfesoiit X20,0iK1,000 worth of tin, A Kt.tf York juan ha,s heen .fined J3. fot. trying, to .persuade, lias sixryear-filid sou that Santa Claus is a inyth—whieh suggests that New York youngsters' are not ijuite so.pix.coci.ous a# foii'.o lolk would have us believe-. Messrs. li. Johnston and. Co., Wellington, arc lidding an miction ( sale at the reside.nco. of Mr. W. Douglas, Oriental Hay, on Thursday, February 26, at 2 p.m. The lorgi apartment of furniture, etc., wliit.il is to be offered will bo. on view J lis morning of the sale. On l'rid.sy, February 25, Messrs, E. Johnston and Co, Wellington, will conduct an auction saio of superior household furniture fill premises .No., .151 Thorndon Quay. Tho sale commences at il a.m. . ■ Among the horrible consequences of the general strike in Leeds that hr.vn been recorded was the condition cf "tho seven gravediggers at (lie new cemetery oil tho edgo of the. city " who. it was reported, were "sloeping-m." til. where ? The Gerinan Emperor has sanctioned the as-signiiicnt of n. sum of .1:1250 from tl)< Secret. Service fund to tho ' o.lhivologish Herr leo Frobenin?, to enablo liim 1 to continue, his exploration work ift Central Africa, Conrad. Becker, a waiter living at Alt Gliemcke, died from exposure on the road In Vdlershof, Germany,.after walkingfor six hours in the snow barefooted' ip <i dightshM for a wager of ,CIOO, '