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[pee gbeviixe's tel. Co., keutee's aghbnts.] Hokitika., Monday. The schooner Zephyr was got off the spit yesterday, and towed into the river by the Lioness. Port Chalmers, Monday. Arrived — This afternoon, Guiding Star, barque, 114 days out from Hong Kong, v.ith 199 Chinese, Twenty-seven deaths occurred on the passage, and twenty are now sick. The vessel has been placed in quarantine. The deaths are attributed to dysentery and scurvy. Sailed— 4 p.m., Phoabe, 8.8., for the North ; late, Midas, for Fremantle. The Bengal has been taken into the graving dock. Wanganui, Monday. H. H. Shepard, coach proprietor, who was thrown from the coach and kicked in the side by one of the horses on Wednesday, on the way from Wanganui, died this morning; deeply regretted. Blenheim, Monday. Jackson, a shoemaker, cut his throat and died shortly afterwards. Gbetmouth, Monday. Thomas Morton, miner, was drowned while crossing a lagoon at Paroa. Two miners, named Alexander Barbour and Peter Delf, were buried in their claim at Moonlight. Delf was taken out alive, after four hours, but was much injured. Barbour was smothered to death. Arrived — Gleaner, schooner, from Melbourne. We have been favored with the following telegram addressed to the member for the district : — PiOxburgh, Monday. The district looks to you to save it from this unparalleled act of treachery — this 50,000 acre job. The indignation here is intense.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3309, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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