DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 83, 3 December 1912, Page 5

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

A MYSTERY CLEARED UP. (Per Press Association.) Hastings, December 3. The body of Louis Donald McGillvery, aged 2J years who disappeared from his parents’ residence, Pakipaki, on 7th August last, was found on the bank of the Awanui stream, near Pukehou, last evening: A boy’s hat was found on the bank of the creek near his home soon after ho was missed, but although the police searched for several days, they were not able to find a trace of the body. Where the remains have now been found is about three miles from where the lad was supposed to have fallen in. The body had evidently been washed up by che flood, in September. The parents now reside in Wellington.

BURGLARS AT FEILDING. Feilding, December 3. A series of burglars occurred here last night, about £5 being taken from the till at the railway station. Unsuccessful attempts were made with an axe to break into Carthew’s stationer’s shop and Well’s grocery premises. The burglar entered Darraghs’ grocery shop and took about £1 and left the axe. The suspects are being watched by the police. ATHLETIC TOUR ABANDONED. Wellington, December 3. Mr Talbot, secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, has received a cable from Unmack, who was arranging for an athletic team from America to visit Australia and New Zealand to the effect that owing to the withdrawal of a prominent member of the team it has been found necessary to abandon the tour this season.