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Oajiaru, September 3. The case against Augustus is to be reopened on Wednesday. Drs. De Lautonr and Wait, will be re-examined, and several witnesses who were excluded at the last hearing will be examined.
Invercargill, September 1. A man named Marsh was drowned last night while attempting to cross the Oreti.
Dustedin, September 6. A good deal of scarlet lever exists both at Dunedin and Port Chalmers.
An inquest was held to-day on the body of the man Watt, who fell over the cliff in Cumberland street on Sunday morning. He landed afP.»rt Chalmers, from Lyttelton, on the road to Melbourne, on Wednesday. He had £l4 in his possession over his passage money when he left Lyttelton, and only £2 7s 6d was on him when found, and the police are unable to find a trace of how the money was spent, or where deceased stayed from the time he landed till Sunday night. He seems to have wandered about in the company of two or three men on Saturday night, apparently trying unsuccessfully" to get into houses of ill-fame. The men say they left him early on Sunday morning, and it is supposed he fell asleep outside somewhere, and then, wak : ng up at six o'clock, fell over the cliff. A verdict of accidental death, with a rider as to a fence for the cliff, was returned. He was 23 years of age.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1544, 8 September 1881, Page 2
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