MAILMAN MISSING.
DROWNING FEARED. [Per Press Association.]
STRATFORD, July 13. Thomas Jolley, thirty-five yeans of age, mailman, left- Tatu on Sunday for Whangamomona with tho mails, a distance of twenty-five miles, and has not since been heard of. It is surmised that Jolley lost his life while crossing the flooded Tangarakau River, which intersects the road at three places on his route. At the. last crossing the cage was defective, and Jolley may have tried to cross the water-swept bridge. Jolley was a native of Gippsland. A search party from Whangamomona has gone out.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8673, 13 July 1906, Page 3
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94MAILMAN MISSING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8673, 13 July 1906, Page 3
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