NEWS BY MAIL.
WOMAN “GHOST.” LONDON, Nov. 3. Tiie “ghost” at Selby. A’orks, appeared again on Sunday night. A police patrol had passed about 15 minutes before a figure in white wn> seen darting about mar sonic trees in tin- Scott-road district. Mrs Biewius, wife of a clerk, and others state definitely that they saw a figure going about - a field. I Many husbafMs have to stay at home when darkness falls, as tlveir wives and children dare not go out or even stop in the house alone. The latest description of the figure is that of a. woman, tall and lean. EX-QUEEN ROBBED. BERLIN, Nov. 3. Hardly a day passes here without news of serious hotel thefts. Wealthy foreigners and leading film actresses all undergo tile same fate. The latest victim is the ex-Queen of Wurttomhorg, who arrived in Berlin on Friday and took rooms in an hotel near the Potsdamerplatz. On Saturday morning she went out and on returning a few hours later she found the lock ut 1 her door had been forced, The bedroom was in great (Ji sort lor. ’ Jewels and dresses were missing, lut j the thieves had evidentK been disunited at their work. The loss is estimated .it 1 only about £IOO. RATS EAT A FORTUNE. . 1
STRASBURG, Nov. 3. Rats have eaten up about £2,600. the whole of the life. savings of a farmer in the village of Saokingen, in Baden. The farmer, who had stored his wealth in a flour-bin, discovered on opening it that all that was left of his fortune was a number of bits of paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1921, Page 3
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268NEWS BY MAIL. Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1921, Page 3
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