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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 85, 19 April 1901, Page 1

A helpless infant was attacked by three pigs at Buarmah (Victoria) recently, and but for the timely interference of its mother would probably have lost its life. The mother, attracted by the child’s cries, had great difficulty in driving the pigs off, and it was found that in addition to severe scalp wounds one ear had been bitten off the child, while several fingers were nearly bitten off one hand. The Wanganui Herald alleges. thst there is a general complaint 'that sheepstealing is on the increase on the coast. A seifler near Wanganui not long, since placed a number of ew.es in a paddock for a fsw days, and op counting then; soon afterwards w as chagrined to find that nearly Qne hundred of them had disappeared. Every effort to trace them has, so far, proved abortive, and their owner has eomc to the natural conclusion that the missing sheep have been stolen emd disposed of. A very painful accident happened to a young man named Ben Mitchell, while working in the Waioeka bush, near Opotiki, lately. Mitchell left his whare to go to where his mates were working, taking with him a billy of scalding hot tea, to drink during the afternoon, When climbing his foot caught in the' supplejack and he fell, and the' billy of almost boiling tea poured on to his head, face, and neck.

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