FATAL ACCIDENT.
KILLED WHILST CELEBRATING PEACE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. An unfortunate occurrence happened at Terr.uKa to-day in connection with the peace celebrations. The public ceremonies had hardly commenced when a young man named Samuel Bates, twenty years of age, was Killed by the explosion of an improvised gas pipe cannon.
INJURED BY FIREWORKS. By telegraph—Press Association— NAPIER, last night. Dur ng the excitement tnis morning a young man named Scorgie, an employee at the railway workshops, who was firing detonators, was struck in the left thigh by a fragment of a case, which penetrated some distance. He was removed to the hospital for the purpose of having the piece extracted under chloroform. The injury, however, is not likely to be very serious.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 432, 3 June 1902, Page 2
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125FATAL ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 432, 3 June 1902, Page 2
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