W. G. George, the English amateur champion, who has created sp many fast records, at tho recent meeting of the London Midland Athletic Club, ran the full distance in the open two miles handicap in 9min. 25|sces., tho fastest time over accomplished by an amateur. A curious but fatal incident happened at the Millwall Docks, London, the other evening. It appears that the steamship Persian Monarch, from Now York, hail entered the docks and was about to come to anchor alongside the quay appropriated to vessels of the Monarch Line, when eight of her crew, though some mistake of a shadow for terra jit' nut, leaped they fancied ashore, but all fell into the water below. They were dragged out, but two of them, though medically attended to, died soon afterwards.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 963, 24 November 1882, Page 2
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