ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
BUSHFELIJNC FATALITY. [TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] WANGANUI, Nov. 24. While felling bush on the family’s property at Ahu Ahu, on Saturday, James John Brownlie, aged 20 years, was struck by a tree, and died when being carried to the Kaiiwi mine.
THE DEATH OF DAPHNE DEATH. WANGANUI, Nov. 24. A month-old infant named Daphne Death fell out of a perambulator at Castlecliff on Saturday, and was strangled. FARMER DROWNED. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 24. A drowning accident happened at Otatutu on Saturday, when John Carrick, one of the best-known farmers in Southland, met his death. Carrick, along with an employee, was hand-straining barb wire on the edge of a lagoon, when the wife broke, and lie was precipitated into about nine feet of water. The employee made strenuous endeavors to rescue; the drowning man, but without avail. He called for assistance, and Mrs. Carrick, Mr. M. O’Brien, and others came on tho scene, but it was fully 15 minutes after the accident before the body was recovered.
PLOUGHMAN KILLED
INVERCARGILL, Nov. 24. A farmer named William Balia ntyne Plunder (32), at Wairio, was accidentally killed on Saturday evening. lie was discing a ploughed field, and in descending into a hollow was apparently thrown from his seat in front of the disc, which came to a stop on his shoulders. The accident was not witnessed by anyone, and deceased was probably two hours under the heavy machine beforo being discovered. Life was then extinct.
THE LITTLE RIVER MOTOR SMASH. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 24. An inquest on the body of James Henderson, of Dunsandel, who died at the Christchurch Hospital yesterday as a result of injuries sustained in a motor ear accident at Birdling’s Flat on Tuesday night, was held today. Hie coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries acsidentally received in the capsizing of his motor car on the Little River Road.
HIED UNKNOWN. AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. An old man, not yet identified, was found' in a weak and exhausted condition underneath some offices at Newmarket on Saturday morning. Ho could give no account of himself, and was taken to the Hospital, where he was unable to give his name, and on Saturday night he died
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3688, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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366ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3688, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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