GISBORNE, Tuesday.
Mr Isles, manager of the South Pacific Peti oleum Company, has just returned from the works. He leports the bore down on Friday a hundred and sixty feet, going well through soft sandstone. The use of piles has been resumed. Shares, contributing, aro tight at four shillings ; and paid up have been quitted at 8s 6d. Last Night. A boy aged sixteen months, a son of Duncan Hepburn, a candidate for the borough council, was left yesterday for five minutes by its mother who had been nursing it, and made its way into the garden, the gate being accidently left open, and Mas drowned in a drain containing a current of 5 inches of water.
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Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1698, 24 May 1883, Page 2
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