CHINAMAN'S'SAFE ROBBED.
WELLINGTON, July 27. The. premises of Sing On Kee, a wollknown fruiterer and provision merchant in Lanibton Quay, wcro the scene of a big robbery, evidently at a lato hour on Saturday night. A sum of between £750 and £800 was missed from a safe. Of this' amount £600 is stated to have been in sovereigns and the remainder in notes.
Access to the money was evidently gained by means of keys. Up to the present the occurrence is shrouded in mystery, and enquiries among the Orientals for details about the affair are met by the laconic answer, "Ploece say no tellum paper."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8203, 28 July 1915, Page 4
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105CHINAMAN'S'SAFE ROBBED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8203, 28 July 1915, Page 4
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