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Evening Star, Issue 21662, 6 March 1934, Page 12

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£12,000 PRIZE. Tho Auckland syndicate, winners of the £12,000 prize in an Australian sweep, consists of five persons, three being employees of a firm of plumbing engineers. Tho names of the party are .Mr and Mrs Gordon A. Cawdron (Mount Eden terrace), Mrs E. Michell and daughter (Leslie avenue, Sandringham), and Clifton Smith (Pah road, Epsom). Mrs Michell and her daughter were newcomers to a long-standing syndicate.—Press. Association. DEATH FOLLOWS BURNS. At the inquest on the body of Jessie Chapman this afternoon before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., a verdict was returned in accordance with medical evidence that death was due to shock and absorption of toxins following bums, THE EARTHQUAKE. Telegraphic messages from the area affected have suffered delay, and several arrived tom late lor inclusion in this issue. Their tenor, however, is much the same as that of the reports published. Palmerston North reports that hotels suffered considerable loss of bottled stock. At the hospital a largo tank above the children’s ward overflowed, the water pouring down the staircase. Runnythorpe reports forty chimneys down. A Carterton message states that Mrs Leu Groathoad, of Greytown, who suffered from heart trouble, collapsed under tho terrifying experience, and died. The Railways Department reports that the Wnirarapa line is now dear and trains will get through this afternoon. COST US SAFE. BERLIN, March ■>. —CosteS landed at M.uenstcr (Westphalia), owing to fog. He is proceeding to Copenhagen to-day. THE SHARE MARKET. Sales reported this afternoon:—• Commercial Hunk, 17s Id; New. Zealand Breweries, .T9s 7d; Bells Hooper.. Is Old; Nevis Diesel, Ls Old.