TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 December 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PEE PRESS ASSOtUATIOJf.J FATAL ACCIDENT. Marton, This Day. On Boxing Day a middle-aged man, Walter George Dentford, ' was thrown from a horse at Marton Junction, receiving a fractured skull, which caused- his death on Sunday morning. The deceased leaves a 'widow and one child. ANOTHER FATALITY. . Auckland, This Day. Harry Welsford, a married man, aged 01, was injured at Tuakau on Saturday through his horse shying on to the footpath, and throwing him against a telegraph pole. He received severe internal injuries, from which lie died yesterday. FOUND DROWNED. Taumarunui, This Day. H. De Vere Hunt,\ an elderly man and one of the earliest settlers in the King Country,, was found drowned in 1 the _ 011 game river, near Taumarunui, yesterday. YOUNG MEN'S FOLLY, Dannevirke, This Day. Un Sunday morning at about two o'clock, the police arrested five young men living together, on charges of receiving property knowing it to have been stolen. Three of them Limdow Harold Frost. Stanley Prebble, and Albert Toonier are postal officers. The other two men were Richard Wilford Wratl and Theodore Brown. The arrests were due to a report to the police by a principal of a hardware firm, that his stock was mysteriously disappearing. One of the quintette was suspected, and on being interrogated, is alleged to have incriminated the others. Two other youths wero also before the Court in connection with the affair—-Gordon Gillespie and Charles David Emerson. These two worked for the firm, from, whom the articles were missed, and were charged with the theft thereof. They were all remanded for eight days, bail being allowed, self in £25 and one surety of £25 each. The police have further investigations to make and it is said there is a possibility of clearing up further mysterious disappearances which have occasioned general public inconvenience, and in some cases monetary loss.