NEWS BY MAN
M KAN lOKT Til IKK. JJivltUN, July 0. ! Seeing a woman thro" hersell from oiio of Herlin’s bridges into the Spre j Dr Max schmidl, who was passing, took off his coat and waistcoat and dived into tin- river. He rescued the woman. When he returned to the bridge for Ids clothes he found that the pockets had been rifled. A watch and chain had disappeared and also a medal which had belonged to a friend who had fallen in the war. It had been given to 111 Schmidt by the man’s mother as a keep sake. |)r Schmidt is so anxious to get back this souvenir that lie is offering to give the unknown thief a fancy price foi 11 and promise that lie will, not hetrav ■ him. . |,'|{.WOK'S OLDEST SOl.nrK.H. , ■ PARTS, July 6. Said to he Em nee’s oldest soldier I Antoine (ienest. who was 99, has died ■ lie took pint iii the conquest of Algo-i. . in 191‘2. He drank a jug of wine al , every meal with a glass oi prom » brandy aft or it. i
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1921, Page 3
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