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..•'•.:.•'.! ■';;:...' • s ' » '. . '. v . • (uNtrtet) PRESS .association.) ; Wellington, Dec. 7. ; • . . • . A twelve 'hours' .walking match yesteridayhetw.een..Crofts and Pettergill was won by jiie, former by nine miles. The distance ; covered by the winner was 67 ■■nnlesV -. '"' : Christchitrch, Dec. 7. . iohn, G< Ration, a well-known builder and ' cbiltr^or, has been arrested by i)etective.T. Neil, charged with forging ' arid utlerio'g a promissoiy note on the : Bank of VSew Zealand for £M 19s lid, purpoting to be signed by John Bennett, Btoreman at;Taylpr and Co.'s* jHerman ,H... Marton, sentenced some 18 months ago to eight years' imprisonment"'for'several forgeries, died m the hospital last nigHt from heart disea!se\; ; A gallant rescue occurred at the River Avon this afternoon, when a boy named : Nelflonj 15 . years of age, though unabje , fa swim, jumped m and saved a little/girl ' named 7 years < old, who fell off Montreal' Bridge; into deep water.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 3
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143TELEGRAPHIC. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 3
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