MORE ABOUT THE SWAG.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 2

MORE ABOUT THE SWAG.

Our remarks regard.-ig tin of the swag and Lui.mi n ma: i a* the Village Settlement bue t -:i republished by a largo luni f... in, / and if our conjectures wi r* - • -r* -t as to there being a con ietU' >u l- t-.v<- u \ the swag and the rem.ii!:*, ti.er ■« a probability of solving the »u\ *l< ry attrndiug the iortuor ad any mte. According to the Wullingfui. p*r -a, IVivid William W.-Ur given on the diploma has . • . , ri in that city very raeir.illy. ... .• ‘ • wore the carrier of tlie ir g j„ it perish in the bush. We p thli*n !«*- !ow a paragraph from tho Mfirwitu Times which throws a fr it d tl i light on tlie question; h it c tlu-lesa puzzling how in • the contents of the swag ho t i !.*•. , become so rotten—even tlie pa ,n was worm t-aten in plac.-s, and (.<tlu rwise boro tlie apnoaranc-j i .!

years cxpxwure. Two months • the village settlers wore it w -k : where the swag was found, a: i c usequently there war no pn-sp of a man losing his wav, tlie t.i .-*•< u- •-.a!!v as it wad within a chain or >< f - main road leading into IV. a. There is atill a rnyst» tv ufi .1 U.« swag which will oulv l>e c.«ar. i up . jr‘ Walkor Umi If. In in our possession, an! if u.c *w r wishes to obtain it he ca • \ « - by communicating witli us ai 1 ; - his identity. Tho fulkw. ■* ’• paragraph referred the HBtb of July th;i -. r T'iv 1 William Walker, a met..hr ft • ’• * Kouth Wales Con.--.. masons, arrived in Pa! --t r search of work, and i-.r. . known to his bretlieri-i , r.. dsdine<l tits assistance t< ti. •, was offered, and was only pn u ! - to acC.-pi as much aa won! i « < him to gel hi Woodville. lb- •*. .•ud i° reach Wellington, and an offer *• made to enable hnn to d.* i!*u Foxton, but be prefen i of Woodville. The name, dipi . date of issue agree m each cw-w. and the infervnoe seem.: to Is- that \\V if perisliod in the bu*fi a f, u *7 leaving here. Compir diploma with the ■«-« document in the hand* of IHanna, secreury 'o the K.lwi- unf Lodge, would uecid. die q .c.-