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ALDERMAN DOWN WELL. HAULED IJP IN TIME. ROCKHAMPTON, September 22. Mount Morgan is suffering, from at water famine, and' the conscientious desire of Alderman O’Brien to ascertain the depth of water in a 30ft. well was responsible for a harrowing experience. With other aldermen he was inspecting the town wells, when ho expressed a willingness to he lowered into one of the wells by the windlass. As bb touched the bottom he was attracted by a hissing noise, and, turning round, ho was confronted by a sft. brown sjiuke, which was uncoiling itself ready to strike. O’Brien called’ to otlieif aldermen in charge of the windlass to bald him up. They did so before the snake could reach him, hut on alighting from the. bucket at tho mouth of the well O’Brien had received such a shock that ho was 1 op (lie verge of collapse.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 20
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148SNAKE DISTURBED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 20
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