Accident to the Governor
A (fIB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) .iij ,•- ■■:-■■■ Auckiand. May 3. Excellency the Governor left by ajfeciai train to*nrght for Onehunga to jxttn the Hiriemoa. In going down the Oiehnnga wharf he>. got blinded by the wliarjf light, and waflcoj} over the wharf into the sea. Mr Noble, the mate of the Mate, vhich steamer^ was alongside, jumped into the. rescue./but the Guver- «&* daught hold of a stringer of the wharf and was hauled up by the aid of a rope, apparently uninjured. Fortunate^ if was flood tide at the time. His ExOTllency w«nt on board the Hinemoa, which sails at 8 o'clock to-morrow morn? ing. Lady Jervois and party, were on fetoard the Hinemoa at the time, ef the accident. . '■: .'-.".■ -■■■:-
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 3
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123Accident to the Governor Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 139, 4 May 1886, Page 3
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