The police received information on Tuesday morning that a man was liviug in a cave close to L,yell Bay in a perfect state of destitution. Sergeant Anderson at once sent a constable round, and he found a man named William Persse in a state of nudity, and halfstarved, there being no food of any kind in the cave. Iu answer to the constable, the unfortunate man said he had lived principally on boiled seaweed and a few fish which lie managed to catch. He is well known to the police, and has several times been brought before the Court for vagrancy. The poor fellow has been living in this cave for about two months, existing as well as ho could on anything he managed to pick up.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 385, 28 June 1879, Page 21
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127Page 21 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Mail, Issue 385, 28 June 1879, Page 21
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