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(Eoceived-12.30 p.m., Dec. 31st.) - SHIPPING. Newcastle, Dec. 31. Hailed Pukaki, for Wellington. ' A PARACHUTIST HURT.
Melbourne, Dec. 31.
Bartholomew, the American aeronaut, who has been giving exhibitions of descents from balloons, met with a severe accident on Saturday. Ha descended with a parachute at Ballarat, but coming down much faster than usual struck a house and badly lacerated both his legs, besides injuring the bone of one.
M ORDER BY A LUNATIC,
An attendant at Yarra Bend lunatic asylum, named Hunter, was found dead yesterday with his head battered in and six stabs on various parts of the body. He is supposed to have been murdered by one of the patients.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4894, 31 December 1888, Page 3
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