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From: Jacqueline Walles <>
Subject: [NZ] Daily Southern Cross
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:38:44 +1300


If you think any of these entries belong to you, they can be researched in greater detail through the Papers Past website. There are sometimes follow-ups at later dates.



24 February 1872 - Mr Frederick HESKETH, brother of Mr Hesketh the barrister of this city, drowned in a water hole while on a survey party. Page 3



26 February 1872 - Inquest on HESKETH, Page 2/3



26 February 1872 -Inquest on Joshua STOREY, late of the Lapwing. , Page 2/3



26 February 1872 - Mr John SOUTHCOTT, grocer in Queen-street, died yesterday under somewhat peculiar circumstances. Page 2



26 February 1872 - From Hokitika - John BLOY, a patient in the Lunatic Asylum, while out with his keeper on Saturday taking a walk, ran away, plunged into the river and attempted to swim across. He was drowned and the body has not been recovered. Page 3



26 February 1872 - A man named HOWLAN, of Dunedin, drowned in the Rangitata. Page 3



27 February 1872 - From Dunedin - A man named MASON, North-East Valley was burnt to death when a chimney ignited the thatched roof of his house. Page 2



28 February 1872 - A young boy named GOODWIN, the son of a settler in the district, was lost at the Kaukapakapa when he was washed off a log. Page 2


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