A HOTEL BROKEN INTO.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3010, 6 October 1908, Page 5

A HOTEL BROKEN INTO.

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 5. The Clarendon Hotel was burglariously entered between closing time on Saturday night and opening time this morning, and £3 in cash taken from the register. Several bottles of liquor were also stolen.

Some months ago (says a writer in the magazine "St. Nicholas"), while the great battleship Dreadnought was at Malta, one of the seamen divers went down to clear her propeller from some flotsam that had become entangled, and he failed to come up. It chanced that the rest of the battleship's -'divers were ashore, and grave concern was felt on the ironclad for the missing worker. Singals by telephone and life-line were sent below without avail. The worst was feared when some big brushes and other tools came floating to the surface, and thereupon the navigating lieutenant sent ashore an urgent message for one of the other divers. The man came aboard, dressed immediately, and went below, only to coriie up full of indignation. "Why, that fellow's been asleep all thistime," he said wrathfully. It was true. The man had just had his lunch, and, finding the work much less serious than he thought, he finished it in a few minutes and then sat comfortably on one of the giant blades of the Dreadnought's ..propeller and went to sleep, with inquisitive fishes swarming around him, attracted by the dazzling searchlight on his breast.