(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHRISTCHURCH. 14th January.
A sensational story conies from Rangiora. A well-known resident there filed some days agro, and then offered his creditors 5s in the £, the reason assigned for his bankruptcy being that he had lost at one of tho Dunedin races £2400, which ho said were stolen from his person. The creditors did not* believe the story, and set detectives t<i work, and yesterday they succeeded in finding, it is said, £1000, sewn in an article of dress belonging to the debtors wite.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 319, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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88(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CHRISTCHURCH. 14th January. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 319, 14 January 1879, Page 2
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