WELLINGTON.
This Day. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency reports, dated London, March 19 : — Wools competition is increasing and the market firmer. Trade in the manufacturing districts slightly better. Bank of England rate of discount 2A per cent On Thursday night a woman named Bridget Beard, living at Ohairi, walked barefoot nearly a mile, and threw herself into the old mill dam, where she was drowned. She was married and lived with her husband. Lately both of j them took to hard drinking, and he had figured in the City Police Court on charges of drunkenness. When sober and away from drink, deceased was a hard working, cleanly woman, but was addicted to bouts of intemperance, during which she was absolutely lost. Her husband also has been drinking heavily, and is now in a state bordering on lunacy. The Marine Department has received the following : — Light House, Cape Campbell, at 8 p.m. Schooner Unity, bound from Lyttelton for Wellington, ran on a reef near the light-house, and is a total wreck. All hands were saved. She was bound from Lyttelton to Wellington with a cargo of produce.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 658, 24 March 1879, Page 2
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188WELLINGTON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 658, 24 March 1879, Page 2
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