POWDER AND SHOT.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1022, 16 April 1883, Page 2

POWDER AND SHOT.

■ ■" . . The Cimi.smzuuc'ii Police get a Scare, The following is from the Lyttelton Times On Wednesday evening an individual delivered into the custody of the police a small parcel, which was viewed with considoiable apprehension by the guardians of the peace. It was very , heavy, and though not of great size, sufficiently large to contain explosives enough to blow any oha in its immediate vicinity very little pieces, Tho depositor of ; tlnV'suspicious article stated that while " proceeding to the railway, station he had i been accosted by an old woman going in ] the same direction, who requested him to i carry the parcel in question, as its weight ( was too much for her strength. He con- ( sented, and took tlie package to the station. : 1 On arriving there, however, he failed to t find the old woman who had entrusted it ( to his care, and he accordingly delivered c it into the charge of the police.' As before a

.iffentioji§df<'this parcel was viewed with 'S^iucH'suspicion by the gentlemen in Wue. I£Fhey did not. like its looks; flitted across their alarjeled';, im'n'ginatibn, and. they began to fea^pstf 1 : one or?Tnore of them might be compelled.', to fate of his late Majesty thq-'-tlie Russias. They left dreaded thihg : ;alone for one night, butiiF the morning it fwas opened with due care and consideration, and found to contain a flask of powder, half a dozen pounds of shot, and a box of caps. The above-men-tioned articles are now at the depot, awaiting an owner, while the ducks.for whose destruction 1 they were ing a temporary .respite.