TELEGRAMS.
Per Press Association. —Copyright GAMBLING DEN RAID AUCKLAND, July 21. t The police near midnight, raided » Chinese house occupied by Harry Wong and arrested Wong and fourteen other Chinese found. The former was charged with boing the occupant and tho latter with being found in a: common gambling house. The police j effected, an entrance by a side window j ai d by forcing .a door which was barri- j cadetl." Some of the Chinese were caught, on the roof, and others in the coal collar. SHIRKER GETS MONTH. DUNEDIN, This Day. Thomas Henry Smith agod 27, for failing to enrol in tho First Division was sentenced to one month’s -imprisonment Magistrate Bartholomew sa’id the accused had deliberately evaded his responsibilities. Ho had not sent him for the full term of thro© months, because he thought it desirable that such | a man should be taken into camp at an earlv period i * AN UNTIMELY END. WELLINGTON, July 23. . Thomas William Hill a member of one of the Reinforcements, training at Tren- . them, was found hanging, yesterday, in the bush in. Silverstream. Ho has been missing since the Sth of February. Hill was about 35 years of age, and a native of New Zealand. H< ’ is believed to have a’ wifo at Frankton-
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1917, Page 3
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