A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WAIHI, January 16. Deverell, who carries the mails to Tauranga, had a terrible experience on returning from Tauranga, yesterday. He was crossing a road oh horseback with the mails, the. road being covered to a depth of six feet by a rushing flood bf water, when half-way across the horse was carried away and the mails washed out to sea. Deverell clung to a barbed wire fence, and crept along it, reaching dry land in an exhausted condition with lacerated hands. "••■>
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8334, 17 January 1907, Page 5
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87A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8334, 17 January 1907, Page 5
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