TELEGRAMS.
Per Press Association. —Copyright WESTPORT, August 6. Surprise Packet Day was hold yesterday on behalf of tbo_ Lady Live,- ! pool Committee’s Fund" for \comforts for soldiers. /All tho tickets (2’AW; r were sold in about an hour. j FOUND DROWNED. j TIMARU, August 4. i Robert Scott aged 55 was found drowned at Winchester yesterday ! morning. For many years he w*» driver of the coach from Orari to Geraldine. At the inquest at Temuka, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. JUMPED OUT OF WINDOW. : 1 NAPIER, August 6. , ’ Robert John Cowper aged 50 a fanner of Wairoa, jumped from tho second floor of the Masonic Hotel yesterday and died on his way to tho hospital Deceased suffered from ill health. His wife witnessed the fatality but was unable to prevent him. SUDDEN DEATHS > ; PALMERSTON N. This Day A boy named Rowlands aged twelve > while watching a football match oh Saturday threw up lus hands to catch a ball and fell over and expired almost immediately. He had suffered from weak heart for some time. An old resident John Me Williams . died suddenly yesterday aged 73. I FLOOD IN MANAWATU. PALMERSTON N. This Day. The Manawatu River is in hign - flood and an inundation of the flat areas is threatened.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1917, Page 3
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