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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13500, 9 October 1911, Page 7

We understand that an attempt to refloat the Pclotas will hd made to-morrow. The spring tides should be higher than usual on that evening. Speculation as to the cause of a lurid glare in the sky was rife in town on Saturday evening. It appears that the .blaze had’its origin in grass at the side of the Castlecliff Railway Company’s linm from vhence it spread to the adjoiningraupo swamp, 'the fire was fierce while it lasted, but soon died down. If the barometer counts for any criterion, the present spell of fine weather should be of long duration, as the glass is still steadily rising all over the Dominion. At Oamaru at 10.30 a.m. tonay, it reached 30.45—an unusually hio-Ji "Pf- TJl p temperatures range* from o3 at Kawhia to 52. at Queenstown. The attempt to float the Carla off that was made by the owners on Saturday was.,not a -success, there not being sufficient time at low tide to pump her out properly. Every preparation. is being made to have arrangements complete, alien with the help of an additional pump, R is expected to have her afloat on Tuesday. , The pilfering of cargo seems to be again rampant in the Dominion. Wanganui suffered in this manner to a very considerable extent some three years ago. Increased precaution in packing and terms of imprisonment upon offenders in other parts of the Dominion were largely instru; mental in stopping these sneak thieves for a time. For a time only, however, for the pilferer is again on the war path. The latest victims arc the proprietors of Roberts’, who last week were 10 tussore silk blouses short in one case alone. The case in question had been very 'skilfully opened, and the blouses abstracted from the cardboard boxes .in which they were enclosed.