A FALSE ALARM.
Constables Owen and Ryan re-ceived-a call to Himatangi on Thursday evening where the nerves of several people had been put on edge by the alleged peculiar conduct of a man armed with a gun, who bad been observed on the Himatangi run. He had been seen to fire the gun and later was observed on hands and knees searching the ground, within a. certain area indicated with location marks. The police made a thorough and prolonged search of the locality for tile stranger but could not locale him, Imt Constable Ryan discovered two spent cartridges and a pair of pinco no/, containing powerful louses. The sequel to the sensation is that a Palmerston business man, with permission to shoot rabbits on the property, bad lost his gla.ssqs and a diligent and methodical search accounted for bis strange-quad-ruped movements which bad startled (be nerves of a Maori woman who bad noticed bis activities and a description of which she had passed on to others. Hence the line and cry.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2645, 13 October 1923, Page 3
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171A FALSE ALARM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2645, 13 October 1923, Page 3
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