TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
(per press agency.) Greymouth, Saturday. A man named David Henry Harrison was drowned last night while crossing the Ahawea river. The body was recovered to-day. A body, supposed to be that of the second steward of the Tui, was picked up in Canoe creek, north of the Grey, frightfully disfigured. Sunday. This morning at one o’clock a drunken sailor on board the ketch Sarah and Mary named Charles Donovan, came on board and wanted a man named James Hudd, who was sober in bed, to come and drink. Hudd refused, and Donovan then naggedhimout to fight, which at last he consented to do. During the tussle both men fell overboard, and Hudd was drowned. The body has not been recovered. Donovan has been arrested. Hudd had a master mariner’s certificate, and lately arrived from Home. Auckland, Sunday. The, Customs’ duties for the half-year ending 30th June, amounted to £102,782. The friendly societies have resolved not to send a delegate to Wellington, but to entrust their interests to the central committee already formed there.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4767, 3 July 1876, Page 2
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175TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4767, 3 July 1876, Page 2
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