DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 61, 7 March 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Ter Press Association.) Napier, March 7. A six-roomed house on the Lang l ley Estate was gutted by fire last night, but the bulk of the furniture was saved. Insurances :House £l5O in the London and Lancashire office, furniture, £75. Fielding, March 7. Mr. J. R. , MacLennan’s Arapata estate Waituna West, cut into eleven sections of 130 to 540 acres, was sold in Fielding yesterday afternoon. Nine sections sold for a total of £4B, 635 at an average of 16 per acre. Tie remaining two sections are exported to be sold privately to-day. Auckland, March 7. The American Consul states that the cabled report • of the Tacoma resident in Auckland is substantially correct, but the name of the parties concerned is T’eterse.n, not Kelbourne. Miss Peterson, eighteen years of age, communicated w.i I. him and told her story. He communicated with the British consul at j a cun a with the result that bo discovered the girl’s mother and she was returned. It appears that Miss Petersor- and her father arrived in Auckland from home nine or ten years agj and lived ■here under the name ,of Williams. The father, who carried on a sn all photographic business, was found dead in bed early this year. A letter among his effects disclosed bis daughter’s story and made a request ly the father that in the event or Inc dor.tn she should endeavour to 1 nrl her mother and return to her.