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A RISKY EXPERIMENT.

The Northern Wairoa Gatette says that one day Uat week that gibbet-like appendage to the Dargavllle wharf, the derrick, was endowed with a more than usually tealiit'o appearanoe when a man w«s seen to be hanging by th« neok, and a orowd of peraom were distinguished outtlug him down. It appears that Ddno who is op to any sort of mad prank made a bet that he could hang for a oertain time m good orthodox Oaffrey and Perm style without Injury to himself or his associates, and although he oonid not get any one to take him up went through the operation with the exception of reversing the order of the drop which he indulged m after the suspension i And you may know him by the gravel raah occasioned thereby.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1478, 9 February 1887, Page 2

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A RISKY EXPERIMENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1478, 9 February 1887, Page 2

A RISKY EXPERIMENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1478, 9 February 1887, Page 2

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