' A lady who arrived in River ton by the train -on Wednesday evening lost her handbag containing a purse, in which was a sum of money and several brooches valued as keepsakes. She dicl not discover her loss until reachinar home, and then it occurred to her, "but she had not the remotest idea where it left her possession. There was a crowd on the platform at train time, and nil she remembered was that she had it in her ha-nd on getting out of the train. Fortunately for her, the finder, a lad named Thomson, living at Pahia, with commendable honesty, took the handbag to the constable* who restored, it to the. owner*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2652, 11 January 1905, Page 33
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114Page 33 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 2652, 11 January 1905, Page 33
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