ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
BODY "FOUND IN THE HARBOUR,
About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. King, a. Harbour Board official, obsorved a body floating l in the water by tlie Taranaki Street Wharf, and reported tho matter. The body was recovered by Constables Hall and Parkinsou, and taken to the morguo, _ where it awaits identification. It is evidently that of a man about 58 years of age, the police description being as follows: —Height, sft. GJin., medium build, grey hair (bald on top of licad), grey beard, blue eyes, largo Roman nose, badlydecayed teeth. Deceased was dressed in a dark tweed 6ack suit, with a grey tweed overcoat badly torn at the pockets, and black chrome shooter boots. A FARMER DROWNED. OBy Telegraph.—Press Association.; Hamilton,- July 27. Mr. Lindsay Johnstone, aged 50 years, a well-known Waikato farmer, and brother to Mr. Campbell Johnstone, tlie Raglan county chairman, was drowned at Itaramu last night while riding a liorse over a road that liad been submerged through tho flooding of the Waipa Rivor.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 9
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170ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 9
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