THE OWNER OF £14,000 WANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1489, 18 November 1874, Page 3

THE OWNER OF £14,000 WANTED.

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON'S LAST

OFFICIAL ACT.

°HINESE CHEAP LABOUR IN OTAGO

REMARKABLE DROWNING CASE

OTAGO GOLD YIELD,

Portions of the wreck of the

KAITUNA,

DUNEDIN.

(From oar own Correspondent). T , This day. Ue Northern escort yesterday brought J!?*a 95860zs Sdwts sold. Cromwell heads |s,Jst with 32770Z3. o j A*e Customs authorities instruct masters L t Bels bound Northwards to keep a good oJf for the schooner Kaituna, now 30 di J lO? 1 Akaroa to Oamaru, supposed to be Tested off Banks' Peninsula &nfi mes are made for a man named Ci 1 j? whom property worth £14,000 has v wit.

i*Jars liS£, l!is?j|sri */' j-Alt was the last official act if his Ex°cel ÜberStbn. 8 CaUS6 Ws ear^

eJToffuMe? c cora«\ pnced at the Clinton week tfeft Mataura and Clutha Railway this Tn the i! m!V™ expected to be at work on the contract during the summer. WesSliL a hbr°r riS bein * empl°yed On the westtrn light lines, owing to the difficulty European. One large contract Tening UP by the Chinese on Friday n JJ e s-8- Wallabi was moored in the Molyimm\t t? ai*anS?*». a very few feet w£ i, ?, ank- Her Mr Morton, who had been spending the evening ashore, was returning, about a quarter to 12 o'clock m company with the steward. Whilst crossing the gangway from the shore to the steamer he stumbled and fell into the water, clutching the steward in his fall, and dragging him in. The steamer was not more than five feet from the shore. The steward got out without difficulty, but could iind no trace of his companion. Search was made next day, and the bedy of Morton found under the stern, about fifteen feet ftorn the place where he had fallen in. Morton was thirty years of age, and leaves a wife and three children. He had insured his life in the Government office, about a month ago for £1,400, but paid only one premium when the accident happened. JVr Sargood's new factory, opposite the railway, will be the finest building in the colonies. It has a frontage of 120 feet to High-street.