AUCKLAND.
,'; • ; Thisday.l I At the Wesleyan Conference yesterdrf the following seven candidates for the ' Ministry were accepted: — Messrs J. j Pinfold, W. Brooke, L. Hudson, C. Abernethy, T. Slade, F. Parkes and Lissit. Mr Oliver Dean's offer was hot accepted on the ground of healiE.' 1 ," ' The schooners Transit (from Oamaru) and Albatross (from Wellington) arrived this morning. The latter vessel .made the run in three days 14 hours. ■ An accident which narrowly escaped a fatal termination occurred during the: launch of the schooner Madona to-day. A line was passed to an adjoining schooner, and when the vessel went off the ways was suddenly drawn taut. A lady spectator standing in front of the rope was caught by it and thrown'several feet into the air and thence overboard. Two men sprang in to her assistance,,but great difficulty was experienced in saving her, owing to the mass of floating wedges and beams. ; /■;-,. ;
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3099, 23 January 1879, Page 2
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151AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3099, 23 January 1879, Page 2
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