The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1870.
English Mail. — The Rangitoto withj the Suez mail on board arrived at Hoki-i tika this morning. Erratum. — In the advertisement of the assessment for 1871, for E. W. Stafford, 19s. 3d., read £9 19s. 3d. Artizans' Association. — We would remind our readers of the musical and dramatic entertainment to be given by the Nelson Artizans in the Oddfellows' Hall, this evening. At the Eight Mile diggings near Hokitika, two miners, William King and C. Jorgousen, were killed on Wednesday by a fall of earth, while working a hydraulic sluicing claim ; a third party Quinn, was fearfully injured. The Stewart's Island Maori Reserve survey party report finding two skeletons near Port Adventure. The natives suppose them to be the remains of men who deserted from a whaler at Pegasus nine years' ago, when one man, exhausted with 40 days' travelling, reached the settlement. Photographs and coins were found near the skeletons, but no writing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 305, 27 December 1870, Page 2
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