SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
(ISY TELKUKAPII.—OWN COtiRKSPONIIUNT.) Talh-o, Wednesday. (iIIKAT anxiety is ciused for the safety of Gqit. Spronlc, of the steam launch Hinemir.i. trading "ii Like T.eipn, who started down the Waikato river in a dingy at two o'clock yestnd.iy. telling his wife he was going for a Iwlh and would In, back at five o'clock, but did n-it letuin. He was found this Hi' ruins; in a semi-conscious state at the Venus llith, iidj.ictit to the iluka Fails From the few words ha spoke it was gathered that he h-id injured his back when'l iking a plunge into Itt-J river after ci:iniiii- out of the 11--• t water, and in getting out tented, and liy exposed all night, lln became nncon.-cio is when tho search party imned him. He was hrouglrl; into Taupo in a trap. Up to tho present time he has not ivgaiiieii c-'ii-ciou'tii-ss.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2583, 31 January 1889, Page 2
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146SINGULAR ACCIDENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2583, 31 January 1889, Page 2
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