To-day's Despatches.
» .■■■■■ (UNITED PR BSS ASSOCIATION.^ V . Nelson, This Day. New from Collingwood states; that a young man named James Cottier, son of an old resident of the district, Was partially buried by a tali of earth m a claim-, at/ Lip&tband's gully. He was able to walk home, bat died an hoar later. ■ { The bodies of the pilotmeu hare not been recovered, bi>t the boat's' oar?, stern sheets,and rudder have been'picked up. Mr Low, the pilot, has been so affected by the ; disaster that he is now confined to his bedi v ' ' . -■' ■' Dunbdin, This Day. . Thomas Kelly, employed on a road contract at the Beaumont, was found dead m a paddock there: on the 12th instant he was drunk when he Iparteii frooi his mate at the gate of the paddock early m the evening, and then ' stated that he could walk no further. , His mate was also the worse for drink. The verdict of the coroner's jnry f was '* died from natural causes, probably accelerated by exposure." ! ; ' :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 216, 16 August 1883, Page 2
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169To-day's Despatches. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 216, 16 August 1883, Page 2
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