WELLINGTON.
This day.
The body of a seaman named Walter Eicketts, who had been missing from the schooner Fleetwing since the 31st ulfc., was found floating in the harbor to-day. From the scanty clothing on the body there is no doubt deceased attempted to swim off to the vessel, and was drowned.
At the inquest on the infant found dead in bed yesterday, a verdict of " Accidental suffocation " was returned.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3753, 7 January 1881, Page 2
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70WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3753, 7 January 1881, Page 2
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