A PECULIAR CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 10. A peculiar case is reported from Ngaruawahia, where an old man named McDonald, familiarly known as "Old Mac" throughout the Waipa died some time ago near Ngaruawahia without friends or relatives in the country, and to all appearances without any money or property whatever. The local cDnstable, while going over the few effects which the old man left, found some papers among which was a ticket for the winner of a recent Melbourne Cup, cjrryingwith it a prize of £4,000. Nothing is known of where McDonald came from, or whether he had relatives or friends, so that, ' though the money can be secured, the question is, to whom is it to go?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3135, 11 March 1909, Page 5
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121A PECULIAR CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3135, 11 March 1909, Page 5
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