NOT BORN TO BE DROWNED.
TPBB FBSBS AB3OOIATIOK.] WANOANTJI, Jas 5. A man named Joseph Thompson, whila intoxicated, made a determined attempt at ■uioide by jumping off the Wanganui Bridge this evening, fie was resoued by a boat from the steamer Clyde, and looked up. In 1868 the same man jumped over a cliff at Oakura, but was saved through his clothes oatohing in some bushes. About a year ago he threw himself into the Hutuka river, and narrowly escaped drowning.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6509, 6 January 1882, Page 4
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81NOT BORN TO BE DROWNED. Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6509, 6 January 1882, Page 4
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