CHRISTCHURCH.
Friday.
The body picked up in the Avon on Thursday has been identified as that of a labourer named King, He was last in the employ of Sir Cracroft Wilson.
A resolution was passed by a meeting of those interested in establishing a school for deaf and dumb persons. The chairman was authorised to communicate with the Government and recommend the establishment of the institution as soon as possible. The insurances on the building of .Messrs A. Wilson and Garrick, destroyed by fire )ait night are—On the building, £200 in the Standard, in the name of J. L. Wilson ; the stock, in the name of A. Wilson, for £200. The two Wilsons are not related.
The inquest on the body of the drowned man has been deferred till to-morrow, at the request of the police.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3196, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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