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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 437, 19 September 1908, Page 4

One of the oldest dwellinghouses in New Plymouth has just been dismantled in Young street, and the condition of the rimu and puketea of which it was built in 1848 is as good as the day it was erected. It was originally built in Brougham street in the year 1848 for Mr George Duncan, who carried on business as a bookseller. The contractor was the late Mr T. Clare, and the late Mr W. Sole was an apprentice on the job. The timber used was sawn by the late Mr T. Wheeler at the back of the racecourse. Thirty-two years ago the building was removed and fitted as a dwelling-house for Mr George Cock, who had lived in it ever since.—News.

A peculiar explanation of the disappearance of sonic ca.sh assets is alleged to have been given at a private meeting of creditors held not a hundred miles from Christchurch (says the “Press”). The gentleman who was meeting his creditors stated that, having decided to change his bank, he had drawn out the amount standing to his credit, but arrived too late at the bank to which he had decided to transfer his account. He took the money (about home, and, considering that the grate would be the safest place for it, he consequently deposited the notes there. In the morning his wife arose and, not knowing that the grate had been selected as a safe deposit, she lit the fire, and the went up the chimney.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph gives the following particulars of the burning of a child, whose death was reported in the cable messages a few days ago : —Tate in the afternoon some would-be jocular person set a lighted match to a boy of 13 who had wrapped himself in paper flags and decorations, with the result that the child is now lying in the Sydney hospitial not expected to live. During the afternoon several children were playing in the street with coloured paper decorations, twining them round their necks and waists, and hanging themselves with paper flags. Jack Nava aged 13, was walking with a child of eight. According to the account given by this child, Jimmie Chapman, as they were walking together, a strange man came up. He seemed amused at the sight of the boy wrapped round in paper streamers, and striking a match, he lit the end of the decorations that hung from him. The papers flamed up, Jimmie cried out, “Jack, you’re on fire !” and a man ran from the opposite side of the street, stripped off his coat, and after a few minutes succeeded in putting out the flames with it. By this time the practical joker had disappeared, and little Jimmie seemed to have been too dazed or frightened to notice where he went. The police were called, and the boy was taken in a cab to Sydney hospital. Early in the evening Mr Boultbee, bail Magistrate, was summoned to lake the boy’s dying deposition. From what young Nava said it wmuld seem that he knew who it was that struck the match.

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