One More Unfortunate.
While a bullkeeper named T, Burke and several coal-heavers were in a boat live hundred yards off the head of the Queen's Wharf, in Wellington Harbor, yesterday, they saw the body of a man floating upright in the water. It was dressed in a long oilskin coat and hat, and the hat was caught by Burke as tbe body drifted past, but the body itself sank. Burke handed the, bat to Mr Wyun Williams, a Harbor Board official, who reported the matter to the police. Constables Osmers and Hammond went a out in a boat and searched for tbe body for some time, but without success. — i Times.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 11, 12 July 1895, Page 2
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111One More Unfortunate. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 11, 12 July 1895, Page 2
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