NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.- PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The police have received a telegram ptatinj! that Miss Oshorne, a steerage passenger per s.s. Wakatipu, jumped overboard on that vessel's trip from Lytteltou to Sy fluey. Monday. It appears that Mrs Oaborne, who drowned herself daring the passage of the Wakatipu to Sydney, was Mrs McAlpine, a barmaid in Messenger's 44 His Lordship's Larder " at Christchurch, who absconded with Messenger to Melbourne. It is stated she took her passage at Wellington under the assumed name of Osborne, and made some remark about wishing to destroy herself.
HOKITIKA, Monday, A younp man named Wm. Porter ivaa drowned in the Arawata River during the flood at Jackson's Bay, on the 13th, July. His body was found after five daye' search, and buried at Jackson's Bay, had come over from Otago via the Haast Pass.
DUNEDIN, Sunday. A contractor named Peter Grant was killed by falling under the train jast as it was starting at Pelichet Bay last evening. He was a married man. Monday. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on Peter Grant, who was killed on the railway. The evidence showed that he was standing on the platform of the carriage before starting from Pelichet Bay. No one saw him fall, but the body was afterwards discovered with the head nearly severed from the body. Harry Dunn has challenged Hudson for the Caledonian Society's Champion Belt.
INVERCAKGILL, Monday. A resident who left for Kimberley, writes from Sydney that he has been told on the best authority that the field is very rich. Persons on the diggings wiite to friends wain them not to give any extracts to the public which might induce a great rush. Before the steamer Pel ham left Grey, mouth on her last tr.p, one of the firemen told the engineer he had dreamed that the vessel would be wrecked, and he left her. It is said that this man had the same experience with the s.s. Taiaroa, and acted on the \\ arning.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2204, 24 August 1886, Page 2
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338NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.- PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2204, 24 August 1886, Page 2
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