A gentleman in Suffolk, England, whoso horse was frightened with the uproar of a Salvation Army procession, which caused an accident in which the animal was injured, and had to be killed, has obtained damages £5O, which were paid by General Booth. Some “ tall ” stories are afloat with regard to the Mahakipawa goldfields. A gentleman, it is said, while on a trip to Wellington for his Christmas holidays, met a men carrying a dirty tin billy inside an old Maori kit, and having struck up an acquaintance was asked if he would give sixpence for the kit and its contents. He declined to accept the offer, but, on being shown what was contained in the dirty respectable he saw that thsrs was £BOO worth of gold. Rusaia it said to cotitein 800,000,000 kHtt (jfforMt.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 260, 14 February 1889, Page 2
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134Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 260, 14 February 1889, Page 2
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