DUNEDIN.
December 6
James Godson, the well-known builder, while walking along the railway line on his way home to Ravenebourne yesterday evening, 10-t bis hat in crossing a small bridge, and in attempting to catch it over-balanced himself and fell into the bay. The water was running out strong at the time, and though not 6ve minutes had elapsed from the time of the accident having been observed from the road, life was extinct when the body was got out. At Saddle Hill Adam Callendar, a miner, has been killed by foul air in a prospecting shaft he was visiting. Henry Beveridge Mclntosh has been committed for trial on two charges of forgery. The Customs authorities has seized a quantity of goods belonging to a Dunedin house. The firm is alleged to have tried to defraud the revenue by understating the value of goods. Mr Pyke being reported to have said at one of his meetings that a seat in the Council had been offered to him on condition of his retiring from the House, Mr Hall telegraphs that " no offer of the kind has been made to Mr Pyke by our Government, and never heard of such an offer being made by any other Government.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3254, 6 December 1881, Page 3
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206DUNEDIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3254, 6 December 1881, Page 3
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