DOMINION DOINGS
£Per United Press « Association.] NELSON, July 5. Biro destroyed the store room at tha Defence Office last evening. It spread to tho omce c! die a-rjuU;ut of the 12lh Regiment, d col work !,y the brigade prevented further canm,i-. . Tho utoio was fufiy stocked with cloibiug and ccoipmcur. The damage is c-.d'K.it-.d :to several hundreds of pounds. An cideriy man named Charles Baker, a fmkcmuin, has bear in-gßing from the French ih-.i for several days. Ha left Nelson on ■!u;io 22 in order to return to D'Urville 4. Ho lira not been seen since, but his -tne'i w.’S i’ou-id w-ehed up at Okuri Ppint. Ur Baker was elngle, and lived alone on a sntsil i l l--..-.C o:f ;. Urriile Island. lie formerly lived a; Pie;on. CHRISTCHURCH, July 5. lie vv,-:i r.-l dr, .. v, fined £X and costs for supplying hmrimeo to tlw Defence De-p.u-t-v-; i conlc-n:n.-r siuievcJic acid. A broach of the i-' v’-l-'lsons was admitted, hue (he clef* ii’i-i’.t' (J> niod wilfully adding the acid, cenronaing ihor, it must have boon from chi wine casks used for limejuice.
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Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 4
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181DOMINION DOINGS Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 4
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