TELEPHONE SPECIALS.
Wellington News. [Own Correspondent.] Wellington, October 30. The sitting of the Court of Appeal has been postponed until November 10. A quantity of cargo from the Lastingham was sold at Auction yesterday. A man named George Wright, and the horse he had been driving in a trap were found drowned yesterday in the Rumahunga river. The trap was found bottom up, the shafts resting on Wright’s legs. It is supposed he was stunned through the trap capsizing.
Captain Williams of the steamer Kennedy, reports when crossing the Wanganui bar he passed the pilot boat with two men taking soundings on the bar. A heavy roller suddenly capsized the boat, seeing which Captain Williams lowered his boat and rescued the men, landing them at the breakwater. One of them, an elderly man, was very much exhausted.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 273, 30 October 1884, Page 2
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137TELEPHONE SPECIALS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 273, 30 October 1884, Page 2
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