INTERPROVINCIAL.
(Per 'Press Association.) 1 TAUMARUNUI, this day. While' grossing the ■ Wanganui river this morning on the .way. to .town .from their market garden ■ AA-ith a supply of vegetables two; Chinamen -av ere carried, doAvfi; the river, Avhich Avas m hood. After floating fpr several hundred yards, tlie trap was at J'ast overturned. -Both-occupants-were throAvn out--'*'. One managed to reach tlie -shore, but the other was ''drowned-. . The horse Avas rescued after, a.gpod deal of difficulty, sib it had cot • entangled hi the harness. WELLINGTON, -this .-day. , The' writ for tlie Taumarttriui election was- issued* to-day.' It fixes the date of the election foi v June 15th, one Aveek later than the Bay of Islands election. CHRISTOHURCH, this day. Thomas * Williams, arrested m Dunedin on a- theft charge, escaped from cus-, tody at Christchurch police station last' evening. He asked permission to go to the lavatoi-y, • and it is presumed he, got, through a •.-window. Ho is still at large.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13697, 29 May 1915, Page 4
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160INTERPROVINCIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13697, 29 May 1915, Page 4
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