HOKITIKA.
This day. The steamer Waipara has not yet shown up. She has been absent nine days, and uneasiness is beginning to be felt. The Lioness goes in search southwards to-morrow. The schooner Dubedm spoke the Waipara some days ago short of coals.
Tuesday. The Christchurch coach has just arrived after eight days' journey. The driver reports all the riven heavily flooded. The coach upset in one river, and three horses were drowned, and the passengers had 'a narrow escape. The Chief Justice and Judge's Associate, and other passengers, are still at Ca-s, and will not reach here before, to-morrow night. Some of the passengers' luggage wag lost, but the mails arrived safe.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3005, 2 October 1878, Page 2
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113HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3005, 2 October 1878, Page 2
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