TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1923, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

;i>y TBI.KUIIAI’ii —bkll I'ItESS ASSOCI AX I ON, AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND. BOX CONTAINING L'ti.OOd. WELLINGTON". Jan. I. Recently the Wellington police were int'ernied 1 1 ; t a mail vas mi-sing from a house in the city. In the course o. a search of tlie premisos in order to clear up the, mystery, a box was I'.,nod containing about I'l’OOO, representing tlie savings of about. ‘JO years. No less than CIOOO of the money was in silver. The money is now safely in the keeping id Oil*' ol the liaiilis. The supposed missing man. about whose safety conUdera'iie anxiety was felt, leas now turned up BLAZE IN" MANNERS STREET. WELLINGTON. January 0. Late la.i night. Marlin and Coy’s Imo (| store, at the hack of Manners Street, caught lire. It was filled with oils, paints, and turpentine and a, terrifie heat was caused. There was great (rouble in dealing with it, and keeping the Home from the neighbouring premises especially simps fronting the street. It was past two before the outbreak was subdue:!. .Much damage wa. done by tlie heat cracking windows and letting water into other plum.particulin'lv a brick building occupied by Alexander and Co., soft goods wnr«liouseiiu'ii amt Fianis, Chemist. Martins .-lido w(i- also (loingod with water. A rough estimate of the total damage is Ml.ooo Hut the insurances are not available yet. SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT. NEW PLYMOUTH. Jan •'). A young man named .Murray. belonging lo Dunedin, was drowned in the Mokau River this morning. lie wa-- -pending the holidays with Charles Raven, a -ell hr. A distressing feature is ihat, .Murray was shortly to he married to Miss ILitch. With three or four others. .Murray went for a batlm in tlie river, hm suddenh sank. The h,id\ ha- not been recoveii (I. LYTTELTON" MEN. | 'CHRISTCHURCH, dan A. | Tlie .seamen in Lyttelton held tin- ; oilier meeting this morning, but l ln. j nature of the business transacted was I not divulged. It i- freely runiouri d about the port, however, tlml the men are preoar-d lo concede all points, j even lo giving tlie required guarnuUc. ' and lo a hide hv ihe award. : l ills' p-re- j ,senut nou-iiuioii .-rews are lemoved I from the .steamers. FA lAL ENIM.OsMnX. GInBORNE. Jan A. . Another i.f tlie Maoris injured by a hciizine explosion at 1 lereuharma. < J o u-aiem) Maori I’a .near Waipiro. has succumbed at Tepuia lie-pita', the victim living Heuare i’aul T'eowai, Kiur(eci! veal's of agi . The accident orciir.ed at a Native gathering bn New Veal’s Eve. \ verdict of am-idnital ... 11 • i II! Ill'll at Ih” illqllcst