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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 8

HERE AND THERE

(Press Association Telegrams.) . A fire occurred early this morning at Blenheim in the shop of Mr Tv. Woostcr, painter and paperbanger, in Queen street. The brigade made a good save, though the outbreak occurred in close proximity to a large quantity of oils, paints, etc. The contents of tbe shop were insured for £SOO in. the Phoenix office. The loss is estimated at £IOO. The premises were, part of a block of shops owned bv Mr Nicholson, of Palmerston North, the whole of which was insured for £l£CO in the London and Lancashire. The damage to the building was roughly *'so. "The accused has taken down everyone he met," said the probation officer at Christchureb to-day, of John Herbert 'looking, 28. a salesman, who pleaded guilty to 10 charges of theft and false pretences in connection with the sale of cutlery. He was sentenced to two years' reformative detention. Counsel said the man had been sent out from England by relatives to pick up ill health. The body of Frederick (folding, 66, \vas found this morning in Mew Plymouth harbor. He. disappeared from the Newton King wharf about 1.30 a.m. on April 8. The auxiliary schoonor Piri, from Melbourne to Grey-mouth, lost her rudder in a storm when 250 miles off Sydney, and ptit into Port Jackson with a jury rudder. The vessel was diverted to Auckland, and arrived this morning affer a fine weather trip.