A coin found in the Invanga district of Southern Rhodesia has been identified bv the British •Museum as being of the K-ushan Dynasty of North-West India. The obverse shows King Huvishka, w ,v lived about 150 A.D 1 . The British, museum authorities suggest that the coin may have been brought into the country a. few decades ago by a soldier or other traveller. A British tourist, whose name is given as John Huld Paddon, aged 56, of Brighton, was killed when he was crushed between a steamer and the quay at Boulogne. Mr Paddon, who had gone to Boulogne in the Steamer Glen Gower, slipped as lie was stepping on board for the homeward journey, and fell into the water between the ship’s side and the quay.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 4
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