TELEGRAMS.
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EXTENSION OF LEAVE. WELLINGTON December 24. The authorities at Trcntham Camp announce that an extension of leave to Saturday next has been granted to the 33rd. Reinforccmnents. The men must report at camp at Trentliam by midnight on Saturday. A special train will leave Lambton for Trentliam at 11.15 p.m. on Saturday. The Specialists of the 33rds have also had their leave extended until Saturday. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. INVERCARGILL, Dee. 27. A motor car with eight passengers, driven' by Ronald Gerard, capsized between Lumsden and Te Anau on Wed- j nesdav afternoon. The majority escap- 1 ed with slight injuries, but William R. Hill aged 25 years, employed in the South British Office, Dunedin, was killed. He was on a holiday and intended visiting Milford Sound.
HEAD BLOWN OFF
BLENHEIM, Dec. 27th
John Ring, aged 40, a miner, at Enchanted Creek, suicided on Xmas Day, his head-being blown off with a shotgun. It is behoved that lie had a brother at Christchurch.
A FATAL FALL.
AUCKLAND, Dec. 27
William Thomas, a widower, a gum digger, fell from the wharf into the harbour. Tie was rescued after three minutes immersion, but life urns extinct.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1917, Page 3
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