NAPIER.
" ';,.;■.■' ■.!;';.■ ' .'\ " /. ",;,[',:.~'.. V, Tuesday.^ .. A man named Hunter, a cook on board the lighter • Admital' has mysterioiisly disappeared. He was last seen on Sunday morning, about 1 o'clock, by two constables on the bridge at the Spit. He was then in company with a man named Perry, and.they were quarrelling. Hunter was drunk, and when they saw the constables they moved away, Hunter threatening what he would do to Perry. Hunter has not been seen since, but a little later the same morning the mate of the ' Result,' steamer, helped Perry to get on board that vessel by the anchor chain. He was bleeding from a cut, and the stains of blood have been traced from the bridge to the water. Perry denies all knowledge of Hunter, and says he was so drunk he can remember, nothing. The police have dragged for the body without success, i
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 30 October 1878, Page 2
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146NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 30 October 1878, Page 2
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