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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1925, Page 3

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MINER'S \YINDFAI.I

NEW YORK, I'Ybruai'v 17

Ah itineraui miner mimed George Campbell CaiMin, after living for years in a sailors" lndgiiig-biiiise in San 1 Fraiic-iscci. today obtained a verdict in the Fitted States Circuit Conn of Appeals which make him a potential millionaire. Tie* dec rce holds that the American Smelting anil Refining Company has infringed patents of his on devices to facilitate copper-ore smelting. Carsun's counsel conservatively estimates the summit due to him at Cl .01)0,(100, and says that similar suits pending .against other companies should' net him another L'9,000,0011. 11 CM AN SACRIFICE. .MADRAS. February 17. Convinced that hidden treasure was buried in a room a Hyderabad widow kidnapped the year-old daughter of a local jeweller and buried Iter alive in a pit in the- room alter placing on her head an ordinary oil light used by poor Indians. The sacrifice was made to propitiate the goddess who was believed to lie guarding the treasure, which sni'rorei's hail advised was impossible to uncart It without human sacrific”. 'I he murderess, a beautiful woman of innocent appearance, is now on trial. IRISH DISTRESS. LONDON. Jannary 29. Presiding at the annual meeting ot the Provincial Bank ol Ireland. Ltd., Yhrognmi'tcn-a vet me, H.C.. yesterday, Mr R. I). Ti'ott.er said that he could not sav settled financial conditions had yet been established in the Irish I' tec State.

The resouri'C’ful activities of the Government had been interfered with by the had harvest and the unsatifactory returns from the agricultural industry. T|v ail verse* trade balance for the Free State was likely to teach L' 17,000. (MO for the year.

Mi- Trotter announced a grant of e.j-jr, for the relief of the acute distress in tlm west- of Ireland caused by the turf fuel and potato famine. In a district along the FermauagbMonaghau holder, a correspondent stales, are families of 10 to 1(> ludlclolhed and starving.