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INVBBOABGILL, September 2. At a meeting of the settlers at Heddon Bush it was resolved to form a oompany to construot a Hue, under the Distriot Bailways Act, from Waimatuku to join the Government railway at Wairoa. The shares were fixed at £5 each, and 1000 were taken up immediately. Other meetings are to be held, and it is expected the project will meet with general support. James Morton, well known as a taxidermist, committed suioide this morning by taking a quantity of arsenic (supposed half an ounce). His wife noticed him vomiting, and sent for a doctor, but deceased gradually got worse and died. He left a memorandum in whieh he took leave of h'i wife and family, and forgave all his enemies and " all people that on earth do dwell." The decersod wai a clever naturalist, but had given way to unsteady habits for some time past. During a thunderstorm yesterday a colt belonging to a settler at Waikiwi was killed by lightning. Two people standing near the animal say they experieaced a sensation of being slightly stunned. BALOLUTHA, September 2. The body of Fergus Fergusson, accountant in the Colonial Bank, recently drowned while bathing, was found this morning in the river, a little below Sterling. GBEYMOUTH, September 2. The Lioness has become a total wreck,
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2623, 2 September 1882, Page 3
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223NEW ZEALAND. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2623, 2 September 1882, Page 3
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