DOMINION NEWS.
(Press Association Telegram)
AUCKLAND. Nov
Evidence of widespread cargo pillaging has been discovered on the steamer Opawa, which arrived from Liverpool, via Sydney, yesterday. Customs searchers found broken" cases in the holds and', elsewhere, and plants of pillaged cargo, indicating an alarming amount of broaching. Two seamen have been arrested, charged with pillaging.
(Press Association Telegram). WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. The New Zealand Rhodes' scholars for 1917 are Arthur Osborne Ponder, 8.A., Canterbury College, and Alexander Francis Meldrum, Victoria College. Wellington. Both are now serving with the Expeditionary Forces.
(Press Association Telegram.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 24
At the Magistrate’s Court to-day George Berry Ritchie, a solicitor, pleaded guilty to a charge of having wrongfully converted to his own use trust money aggregating £3309, and was committed for sentence.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4406, 25 November 1916, Page 6
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