FLIGHT OF A WELL-KNOWN CITY COUNCILLOR.
WITH A GOOD "DEAL OF MONEY. [United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 23. The name of the absconder with whom rumour haa been bußy tor some days past ia now given as Councillor Joseph Myers An information has been sworn against him. He is believed to have left on Friday by the Maori, as he was know n to have been making inquiries about a passage, ostensibly on behalf of a needy friend. Myers probably took away a good deal of money with' him, as lor some days before his depannie he was cashing cheques with tradesmen lor larg? nuiou ts, and obtaining tbe change atie- paying small accounts. It is uodersto d, bowever, that he did not confine his opjrations to cheques. The Maori's first port of call is Monte Video, in Uruguay, where there is an txtraditiou maty with England.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 272, 24 November 1898, Page 3
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