GENERAL NEWS.
(By Telegraph.—Presa Association). Dunedin, September 26. All the strenms in Central Ofago are in flood, and considerable damage has been done to niiuing property. Mr Wm. Mardling, a blackumith and & very old resident of Hyde, was drowned in crossing the Taieii River ISkTim, November 20, In the Supreme Court, W. L. Rees sued the Evening News Company for £7O, which included £SO that he alleged was a loan advanced to keep the paper alive when it was practically insolvent, The Company alleged that the monoy was a gift not a loan, and disputed other items of the claim. The Chief Justice upheld the contentions of the Company, except in one item of £6 ss, for which he gave judgment without costs, Chrisicuuhcu, September 26. Shortly before two o'clock ibis afternoon, two young men named John Loader and Thomas Berry, were sailing a boat near the western breakwater at Lyttelton when a Budden squall capsized the bout, Berry was rescued, but Loader was drowned.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4534, 27 September 1893, Page 3
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165GENERAL NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4534, 27 September 1893, Page 3
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