CANTERBURY
Two Men Drowned. — At one o’clock on Satin day morning three men endeavored to make their escape from the ship British Crown. They (the boatswain and two seamen) succeeded in lowering a boat, and upon letting themselves down capsized it; all three were thrown into the water, ai<d only one of them succeeded in saving his life by clinging to a boat sent to their rescue from the Epsom. The bodies of the two men drowned have not yet been found ; their names are M’Pherson and Linden.—Press, August 24. The Risjn> Geneuat.on in Canterbury I . Newly arrived Swell —(meeting two very small boys riding two donkeys).—Ah my lads, are those your donkeys ? Biggest Boy.—No, they’re fathers. N. A. Swell. —Does he want to sell one of them? Smallest Boy.—No\ and if he does he shan’t.—Press, August 25,
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 141, 25 September 1863, Page 3
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138CANTERBURY Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 141, 25 September 1863, Page 3
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