A TRAGIC DEATH.
BUSHMAN FALLS OVER A CLIFF
Shortly after 6.30 p.m. Inst evening Sergt. Button received a telephonic communication from Constable Kirby at Tologa'Bay, to tho effect that a imshmtin named Harry Notion had met bis death while engaged in bis occupation. Deceased was falling bush at- Alan gntokorau, fifteen miles- from Tologa and about 11 a.m. yesterday morning, while working on some precipitous country, lie was struck by a tailing tree and knocked over an adjoining cliff. Tho body was recovered, and is being brought'to Tologa Bay by boat. Air. W. A. Barton, S.AI., District Coroner, was communicated with on receipt of the news, and has given instructions that an inquest is to bo held before a justice ot the Peace at Tologa Bay to-day.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 3
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127A TRAGIC DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2036, 26 September 1908, Page 3
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