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A Settler’s Wife Missing. Masterton, This Day. Mrs Sinclair George, wife of an Alfredton settler, has been missing since November 6th. On that day she left her lodgings at Kuripuni, and lias not since returned. All efforts to trace her havo so fir proved fruitless. Canterbury Cricket Team. Christchurch, This Day. Tho Canterbury cricket team has been selected to tour the North Island next month ; £IOO lias already been promised towards the oxpeuses. A Cycle Detachment. Christchurch, This Day. Captain Hobday, adjutant of the North Canterbury Infantry, has received instructions to organise a cycle detachment. This will bo tho first in New Zealand. Rain Needed. CiiuisTciirßcii, This l>ay. Gloomy accounts of the crop pro--pects continue to come in from the country owing to the want of rain. Trr veiling Pickpockets. Christchurch, This Day. A gang of pickpockets travelled by train from Dunedin to Christchurch on Saturday night. Passengers were robbed at Palmerston and Timaru. Fire Inquiries. Auckland, This Day. At the enquiry into the fire at Waihi, the verdict was accidental lire. An enquiry was then begun into the incipient fire at Coster’s chemist shop, about an hour after the first fire. Tho witnes Mrs Lucas, stated she iw a fire blazing in tho shop, while t'o-tnr \va landing m the doorway. | At this stage Coster was seized by | a fit and blood streamed from bis ! mouth. Hi condition was so serious ! that a doctor was called in. I As Coster’s mother is seriously ill and required his j.re. nco. the Auckland enquiry was adjourned for a 1 week. Fatal Bathing Accident. A 1 ( kum>, This I '.tv. | Susan Callawai, a half-caste, aged 1 Ih, whs drowned while bathing at I Tauranga. Wellington News. Wki i.inoton, This Day. Thr man Sinclair, who tried to I blow hi:; head off with a dynamite j cap, died this morning. The trial of IMnlpott for the alleged murder of Hawthorne, begins at the Lower Court on Monday. There are some 35 witnesses. The hearing of the Rrunner cases was resumed at the Supreme Court today. Alleged Fraudulent Bankruptcy. Napiku, This Day. David Sligh, grocer, who recently became bankrupt, has been committed for trial on a charge of contracting debts to tho amount of i l“.M» without a reasonable hope of being able to meet them, as well as i ulber debt . * i 1
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 576, 29 November 1897, Page 3
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