It is not often that a drunken man acts as his own policeman and puts himself into gaol. Such a rarity, a gray-headed old man, presented nimself to the Blenheim police the other day, staggering round the station to the cells, contentedly wrapping himself up in the prison blankets, and giving it to be understood that he knew he was in tho right place for him and was going to stay there. While shunting operations were going on at the Flinders street station, Melbourne, the other day, a locomotive dashed into a stationary passenger {rain, and wrecked, one of the carriages. FortU; aately there was no one in the train,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1054, 23 November 1903, Page 2
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