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(Pie United Press Association.) < WELLINGTON, February 21. A man named John Conrick, 25 years old, was found dead in a house in Martin,square yesterday. Tlie medical evidence showed that death was. the result of an epileptio seizure resulting from alcohol. The coroner remarked that at least 50 per cent, of the deaths that camo tinder' his notice were caused lay drink. ASM ljU KTIiX, February 23. .There have been several splendid showers, of rain during tlio week,, about 2in having fallen in that time. Grass is springing, and the prospects for winter fceil arc good. Tho Government having, dccidcd not to plirohase the Laghmor Estate, which consists of about- 18,000 Kcrcs, the owner, Mr G. ;A. M. Btick'lfey, inlehds eitbdivitlilig about half of the estate—some 10,000 acre! —into 30 farms, and offering them for sale by auction.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13836, 25 February 1907, Page 4
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138TELEGRAMS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13836, 25 February 1907, Page 4
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