BURGLARY AT WELLINGTON.
VALUABLE PAINTiING STOLEN
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, .this day. The 1 local Art Gallery was 1 burgled be^.' tween 5.30 on Saturday and 2.30 yesterday afternoon, and a famous landscape painting .by 3. W. Leader, R. A., stolen. The painting, which represents an English landscape (a view from Surrey hills), was on a canvas of about 4ft by sft, and was safe when the- gallery, Was closed on Saturday. Yesterday the frame was discovered m the .anteroom, 'with;, a dark lantern, jemmy, and other burglars' tools lying aroundv The picture was brought to Now Zealand by Mr A. Longdon with other English .works of .art for the recent New Zealand exhibition, and subsequentrly purchased by -'Mrs W. BU Rhodes, of Wellington,- for. about £600 and presented to the local gallery. ; •;':'•
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19080413.2.40
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 5
Word Count
133BURGLARY AT WELLINGTON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.