GAOLER AND CONVICT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 7

GAOLER AND CONVICT.

■a -. MAKING SPURIOUS COINS IN" PRISON. By Tclegrapli.—rress Association.— Copyright* BERLIN, 25tb February. A gaoler named Reusburg, employed ill the prison at Sebleswig, has been airested on a charge of assisting a con* vict to carry on coining in his cell. Tho gaoler's vifo and mothor-in-law! have also been arrested for uttering ths counteifeit coins. CHRISTCHURCH MOTOR ACCIDENT. MERRETT STILL UNCONSCIOUS. [BY tßLKOnA ttt.*— rhESS ASSOCIAT/ON.} CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. • Merrett, who was injured in a motorcar accident on Sunday oveninjv, is still unconscious, with no appreciable chaiigo in his condition. BUSH FIRES IN THE NORTH. — — <&• [fIT TELEGRAM!.-— PRESS ASSOCIATION 3 AUCKLAND, 25(h February. The fire fiend is still active- in some country distiiets, and reports of extcntivo dama£,e& como to hand from To Aroha, Mataniata, and Pokeno. Swamp Jires have done much damage to tho grass and flax sections Of tho Uungnhunga Swamp, and in places it nns been burned down to the clay subsoil. At Pokeno v&ldablo flax swamps have been devastated. I'rom Mataniata is repotted tho outbreak of a serious bush fiio on the. Okaria Clearing, which destroyed a fourroomed cottage, (he property of Mr. P. Blackmail, and a number of sheep and cattlo. Tho Waitekatiri Gold Mining Company had a narrow oscape with part of its mining plant, the tramway bridges and tho hoppers nt the head of tlio aerial tramway only being saved M-ilh considerable difficulty. The Shortages of ■water made the task of fighting the live a, difficult .ftj^,,