DROWNING FATALITY NEAR TINIROTO.
Intimation was received by the police at a late hour last evening that a man named Thomas Rogers had been drowned' in the -Hangaroa River, near Tiniroto. From details to hand it would appear that deceased, in company with Air. Edgar Wallace, slieepfanner. Tiniroto, was crossing the river, which was in a state of flood, when his horse got carried away, and the unfortunate mail was washed off his horse and drowned. The body lias not yet been recovered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2148, 25 March 1908, Page 2
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83DROWNING FATALITY NEAR TINIROTO. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2148, 25 March 1908, Page 2
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