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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1914, Page 2

By Independent

Cable News from Abroad (Sydney Sun. HOTEL IN FLAMES. Vancouver, February 1. A fire at the Fair View Hotel, in Taenia, yesterday, was nearly resulting- in a big death list. Four men and a woman 'with n three-year-old baby, who were imprisoned by the tiaines on th'i third floor, saved themselves only by resorting to the most d.}S : .'e , .".ue measures. One of the men, Will Buckley, a sailor, jumped on to a balcony 20ft below, where he stood while the baby Avas tossed into'his arms.Tavo of the other men then made a perilous descent doAvn a rope improvised/ out of strips of blanket, Avhile the fourth man jumped down a blazing staircase. Finally the Avoman Avas rescued by the firemen, as she hung fainting out of a AviiuUnv, through Avliich dense volumes of smoke Avere escaping. Although several persons Avere more or less scA-erely burned, luckih' 110 loss of life occurred. "CASHBOX IN THE SAND. Vancouver, February 1. While walking along the beach near the old dock at Bremerton, near Seattle, Walter Angel, the 14-years-old son of William Angel, a machinist at Puget Sound, spied a small tin box half buried in the sand. ' ' (riving it a kick, and hearing a metallic jingle, young Angel quickly got the box out of the sand and set about seeing AA'hat it contained. As the lid Avas secured Avifh a padlock he took his knife and, prizing the- cJover off, nearly dropped the box in his excitement as a thick Avad. of banknotes and t.Aventy dollar gold pieces greeted his eyes. • The youngster hurried home with his treasure and told his fathere, avlio counted the money and found that it amounted altogether to £400. Mr Angel placed the in the Citizen's Bank and advertised for the oAvner, but so far there h;n r e not been any claimants. , MAILBOAT HELD UP. San Francisco, February 1. The 11.M.5. Tahiti had her departure for Sydney delayed for about half an hour yesterday through the belated arrival of one of her passengers. •Tust as the vessel was . backing out from the Avharf, the port captain shouted " We've another passenger for you—stop Avhen you get out in the channel and Avait." Thirty minutes later ' Charles McDonnell, of Britisli Columbia, rushed on to the wharf, panting and perspiring, with a suit case in one hand and a suit of clothes in the other. 'In the twinkling of an eye he Avas aboard a launch and a\ as being borne off to the Avaiting liner in mid-stream. As the belated one Avas crawling up the ship's side Captain Evans roared through his megaphone, "Say, AA'hat made you .'"miss the steamer?" "I had H> Avail," replied McDonnell, until-a blooming tailor sewed four buttons on my coat in 'Frisco." The other passengers laughed, the engine-room goi the orders to go ahead and the Tahiti was sooll speeding down the bay on her way to Sydney.