AUCKLAND NEWS.
, (by telegraph-own.correspondent.) , :; h : •.» Auckland, Last Night. At the New Zealand Insurance Company annual meeting,. Major George, criticised the company's inveatmenca and v ' moved for the sale'of all'shares in companies ' Having heavy liabilities' 'The motion was' negatived arid'the report adopted,* Dr. Campbell and Messrs Hortori; arid Thomas Russell were re-elected directors. ••'A > . .i I •:;;"..' , There was a painful drowning case at the North Shore, ; the, person drowned /being Mrs Christina Kirkham, daughter, of Mrs Elizabeth Murdosh, Beach ljjoad,' Devonport, and wife ?of Mr Henry Robert Kirkham,, school •'teacher, of Kaipara Heads. The body was found at seven' this morning by some bathers attired only in a night-dress arid with one stocking on. Deceased had suffered lately from violent pains in her head but as to how she got into the water nothing definite is known. in It is though that/her. agony was so great with the, excruciating pains in her head that she arose during the night (and found her way to the beach, The, house is situated at the eastern end of Beach Road arid at high water the sea would not be quite a score of Btepsfrom; the front >■>■ ': '!
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Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3360, 11 January 1894, Page 5
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192AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3360, 11 January 1894, Page 5
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