Scene at a Wreck.
A disgraceful scene has jus'i.beenj, enao.tg^ on the •w&uj-bjcoast of England;near Brighton. It appears tnat for soiue daya.alarge, quantity/ of wijeckagqg has liljeen-: washed ashore, along t the coast, ,and?fi?ora portious being found w|th;|he / name Simla .uppn .tbeini , : . is I( Jt>b]ieve^ , •.the; wreckage oame. n fr,om ; that; jveasel, \vh j ich..wa.s iapolliaipn afew^t^s previously oft 7 the Isle of Wigh^.,..,. Among , j9ther articlesiwere a tMrt^-siXj gallon casks of wine and several casks' of Burton ale. Ajlarge number of persons'* assembled, " purloined yarious articles, and, broaqhed the. casksj A n extraordinary scene of drunfcnees tol- i |lowcd,,^umb^rs o| i.n,eu and boysj lving^ 'about ,helD^essly ip^p.xicated' many ? of! them insensible, .One boy, of ififteen--; and two . otherSi were fpt^nd 'o beiau'bkd- ' tnat they were, re.ojLo'v.ecl ,' jo the i; jSussexi • Gqunty. . jtospital' Irstoiimch-purap "bein^ D^ouglrt , v ihfco requisition. TSveniy persons in^H were found, hopelessly drunk, , ari<)' had;nin)ti other' persons and Veye.rai arrived on the' spot, a number of theta 1 ' certainly rm?\ ljaye u een dro «mi >d. A r| iuau nam^d\ IVTppkfo.rd, who fan found r in> apparently b,ee a ; lsfihg c m a state b'f intoxication; fpi' f , , ufc 24 hours, subseqaen.t^y^ie^. ,*f •.- c*j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 105, 31 March 1884, Page 2
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197Scene at a Wreck. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 105, 31 March 1884, Page 2
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