AUCKLAND.
This daj. . Last evening the wife of Constable Naughton, walking behind her husband across the railway bridge at Helensrillo, was blown off. Her husband heard a scream, and jumped off ju the darkness.
landing in the mud, and became so deeply imbedded (hat he could not move. A child saw the occurrence, and ran to the station, and Hull, the railway porter, jumped into the creek and caught Mrs Naughton, who had drifted a hundred: yards, with her head under the water. Hull was unable to land owing to the mud, but held the woman's head out of the water until both were rescued by a boat. Animation was restored with difficulty. Naughton *as hauled safely out of the mud by ropes. }', The Kingite/Maories have resolved to open Kawliia harbor to pakcha traders.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 8 September 1881, Page 2
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134AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 8 September 1881, Page 2
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