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[By Telegraph.—Press Associatim.] Welllatrtoa XUoos. Wellington, Monday. Piinic Warden has been scratched for nil engagements at the Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting. Sand Accumil&tioala N#w Plymouth Suftour. New Plymouth, Monday. The Chief Surveyor having been ordered to make ut report on the sand.
accumulation in the New Plymouth harbour, says that there has been a decrease of seventy eight thousand yards of sand since last survey, fourteen months ago, but the bulk of gand in the harbour has shifted bodily and now obstructs the shipping at the «■ wharf. If fifty thousand yards of sand were dredged it would give the channel 800ftof width and 12ft depth of water at low spring tides. Delibearte suicide. Napier, Monday. George iidward Ha!h»in, formerly lamplighter fpr the G-s Company, and respectably connected, who was recently committed for trial ior indecent assult upon a little girl and was admitted hail, comnV.tted suicide this morning by throwing himself over the cliffs near the breakwater, a fall of 260 feet. He was seen to fall and was -r picked up and conveyed to the hospital, where he died shortly after admission. He was ot wejk intellect and was 23 years of age.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3970, 23 November 1891, Page 2
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197VERY LATEST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3970, 23 November 1891, Page 2
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