WELLINGTON.
This day. A heavy southerly gale blew with unabated force all yesterday. " A tremendous sea is running at the Heads, and no-steaniers were able to leave the harbour. At the annual meeting of the Public Hall Company held last night the balance sheet showed a credit of £811 and a dividend of 10 per cent was declared. At an inquest on the body of Richard Kir wan, found drowned in the harbour, a rerdict of accidental death was returned, and a rider added that a breastwork should be protected. The wreck of the Tararua was referred to in various Wesleyan churches on Sunday and special prayers were offered for the bereaved ones. A man named Michael Quirk stabbed himself in the abdomen in the Park yesterday, It is supposed he was mad, and. he is not expected to recover from the wound. He had been working in the Waimate Bush until Friday last, and was committed to the Sunnyside Asylum for lunacy from drink in 1877. • At the inquest yesterday on the man who met his death by falling off the Southern train on Saturday, a verdict of accidental death was returned. There was not sufficient evidence to prove the identity of deceased, but he is supposed to be William Oregan, alias Drockley Bill.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3850, 3 May 1881, Page 2
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215WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3850, 3 May 1881, Page 2
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