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Grahamstown, April 17. A digger arrived in town to-day from the Upper Thames with some very good, coarse gold and two gold bearing specimens, obtained from a new locality. He has shown the gold to the County authorities with the intention of either claiming the gold reward or obtaining assistance from the County Prospecting Committee. Several parties prospecting are said to have obtained payable returns from alluvia! or reef wash. Auckland, April 17. A miner named Michael Collins at Coromandel has received a letter from a firm of London solicitors announcing that he is heir to a fortune of £300,000. In the case of Arthur v. Waikato Steam Navlgition Company, a claim of five hundred pounds damages for injuries received from falling down the hold through the alleged negligence of the defendants, nine of the jury were in favour of awarding no damages.
The judge held this to be a verdict for the defendant and entered accordingly. A young man named James S. Aitken, nephew of Aitken,land Agent,fell down in an apoplectic fit this morning and died immediately. He had been employed as a clerk in Hesketh and Richmond’s, Montaugu M‘Murdo, son of Captain M'Murdo of the Mutal Life Association, was thrown from his horse and sustained concussion of the btain. It is feared his injuries are fatal. The City Council to-day referred the question of the employment of Mr Clark C.E. to the Public Works Committee.
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Kumara Times, Issue 487, 18 April 1878, Page 2
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