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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3716, 30 December 1912, Page 5

The passage of a foreign body through human flesh was strangely illustrated by a case which occurred quite recently in Wellington (says the ••Dominion.”) A man was engaged in moving a roll of linoleum in a shop, and allowing the roll to fall against his shoulder before he lifted it, he was alarmed to feel a sharp pain as though a knife blade had been inserted in the- front of his shoulder. As the pain recurred, he got someone to feel all round the spot, with the result that something was located. A slight insertion with the point of a keen-edged pocket knife was made, and about an eighth of an inch under the skin a fish bone, three-quarters of an inch in length, was located and extracted. How the fish bone got there is a mystery, for the person concerned could not- remember ever having had trouble with one. and even if he had swallowed one, bow did it find its way into his shoulder?

A boat belonging to the missing barquentine Mary Isabel, which disappeared whilst bound to Sydney from New Zealand early in September, 1911, was picked up by Captain Gundersen, of the Norwegian barque Este, some time ago. In a letter to a Sydney resident Captain Gundersen has supplied the following particulars regarding the finding of the boat: “The lifeboat of the Mary Isabel was picked up by me on the voyage from Newcastle to Coldera on January 20. 1912, south 37 and 19, east of Greenwich 176 deg 4. There was nothing in the boat except part of a pair of oilskins and the small compass. The boat was right side up, with two big holes in one of the sides, and niy opinion is that it had been in the water for nearly .two months when I picked it up, as there were any amount of barnacles on the boat.”

In the Patca Magistrate’s Court the young man and young woman who so narrowly escaped a terrible death through being overtaken by a train on a narrow bridge, were proceeded against for having trespassed on the railway line near Patea. The defendant pleaded guilty. The police stated that the prosecution arose out of ail incident which took place on Labor Day. When the defendants were walking along the viaduct a train came along, and in order to save their lives, the young man pushed the young lady into the river below, he himself following. The parties were subsequently rescued. The Railway Department did not press for a heavy penalty, as it had taken the proceedings to impress upon the public the danger of trespassing on the railway. A solicitor who appeared for the young lady, said he had to apologise for her non-appearance, as she had not recovered from the shock, caused by her involuntary immersion. He thought the defendants had been sufficiently punished, and he hoped that the Magistrate would take all the circumstances into consideration, and deal leniently with them. The Magistrate: I will take that view of the case ; I will -simply enter a conviction, without a fine, in each oasfe* RoyaL Vases, Happy Ha<3rian<L.- The& Musketeers, only az ® 0I b

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