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[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] A TRAGEDY'. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. - Tho bodies of two citizens of Manchester. missing since the beginning of the year, Marjorie Stewart aged 17. and Marry Fallows, living apart from his wife, were discovered in a cave at Wimmt’s Pass, Derbyshire. Tho previous week the finder encountered a man and woman in the darkness at the entrance to tho cave. They asked him to extinguish the torch he was carrying. Becoming suspicious, be revisited the cave and discovered the bodies and a bottle of poison alongside. The pair had exchanged Christmas Greetings, it is believed to have been a death pact.
OFFER FOR SKRYIC E. CAPETOWN, January 10. Ex-servicemen in Johannesburg arc offering their services for China. It is stated a battalion of trained men could he raised.
ANTHRAX. . [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this day at 1.30 p m ) LONDON. Jan. 10. Four attendants at the Zoo .contracted anthrax, alter assisting in the. postmortem on two elephants. INSANE ROBBERS. WARSAW. Jan. 10. During a brilliant ball under the patronage of Madame tllsudski, a guest missed a valuable diamond bracelet. Tho police traced a departing luxurious motor ear to a house in the suburbs. They were preparing to rush, pistols in hand, in the expectation of encountering a nest of hand its. when they noticed an inscription. “Society to aid Warsaw's poor.” Inside they found two wealthy manufacturers. Oldavinski and Bilkowski, sitting smoking in evening dress. They admitted 10 similar thefts whereby philanthropic institutions unwittingly benefited. Both were arrested and certified insane.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1927, Page 3
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