WEST COAST.
A 16ft seam of excellent coal was struck in tlie tunnel of the Coal Creek State coal mine on Thursday morning. Intelligence' has boon received on Thureday that the barquentine Ada E\a, of 136 tons, Captain Petersen, from Sydney for Greymouth, laden with ironbark piles, was wieeked on Giilcup.e's Bluff, about 100 miles south of Hokitika, on Tuesday la;>t. A seaman named Johnston wa 3 drowned The sun Ivors were rescued in an exhausted condition. John'-on, who was drowned, i« "a Norwegian. He leaves a v»ife and two children.
T. Lucas, a member of th© Fifth New Zealand Contingent, wl:o met Ins death by an accident at Granity last week, was •accorded a military fuu?ral ou Sunday. Tho cortege included three bands, Volunteers, veterans, and returned trooper* from a'l parts of the district, and waa the largest &een in Westport.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 36
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142WEST COAST. Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 36
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