A Warm Time
(By
Telegraph.)
Reefton, Aug. 8. The Matakitaki correspondent of the Reefton Times writes that two men named Hargreaves and Haldane, had been drinking at May’s publichouse on Saturday night when a row ensued, during which they put May on the fire. A man named Mitchell succeeded in getting a telegram off from Murchison for the police in spite of the danger he was exposed to, as Hargreaves openly swore that he would shoot anyone who attempted to telegraph. All Saturday night the place was in an uproar; guns were being fired continually, and the store was stripped of everything with the exception of a little beer. After taking May off the fire they burnt all his clothes. He is very badly burned, but not dangerously so and cannot leave his bed. A constable who went up from Lyell at 3 o’clock on Monday found it necessary to swear in four special constables as Hargreaves declares that he will not be taken. This occurred in what is known as the •* Lost Tribe ” district.
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Southland Times, Issue 13284, 9 August 1895, Page 3
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175A Warm Time Southland Times, Issue 13284, 9 August 1895, Page 3
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