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(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Hinetnoa returned from the Chathams yesterday, having landed the new R.M., Major Gascoigne, on the islands. She experienced a heavy gale on Tuesday during which a wave broke on board and did some damage. She was hove to for eleven hours. The sealing ketch Anna owned by Captain Bradshaw of the Bluff, called at the Cbathams 10 days ago with 139 seals caught at the Bounty and Chathams. More wreckage had been washed ashore lately including a pine spar with wire rigging attached. MARTON. List Night. A shocking fatal on Saturday at the Otamokapun Block, 2u miles north of Hunterville. Kiverson and Ash were fulling a tree. They had cut the front searth with axes and sawn the back, and were standing behind as it fell, when it slipped back over the stump. Kiverson was struck insensible and two hours after when he recovered consciousness he found the tree had cut the body of Ash in halves. Tho remains have to be carried fifteen miles through the bush before they can be put on a conveyance.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2988, 8 September 1891, Page 2
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184INTERPROVINCIAL. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2988, 8 September 1891, Page 2
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