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■Mr Charles' Spott; aged- 82 years, died suddenly at.Mosgiel on Saturday morning. The matter has been reported to the coroner. .. . ,
While Henry Collett,. .a dock labourer, was working:on board the s.s. Taupo in the Port Chalmers graving-dock on Saturday afternoon lie fell and fractured his leg. He. was removed tp the Dunedin Hospital Mr W. H; Wake, a farmer at Fairview, was taken suddenly ill ' while visiting Timaru on; Friday, and died from an attack of apoplexy. Deceased was well advanced in •years,, He was a retired school teacher, who formerly had charge of the Kaiapoi and Ashburton Schools. Several of his sons follow their father's profession. A bottle containing, a piece of paper with the words: "'Croshier dead; boat sprung .-leak. 27., ; miles off Cape Egmont— Peele," written on. it is reported to have been picked up/amongst some rocks on the south side of the Opunake Bay. Some eight months ago. Crozier and 'Peel were blown out to sea. ■ : Crozier's body was picked up at Mokau, but no tidings have since been heard of-Peel. On the face of it (says 'the Taranaki: Herald) the/ paper would appear, to be a hoax, as Peel never spelt his name with a final " c."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11603, 11 December 1899, Page 6
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