ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(BY TELKCttA^II —PHi:S3 ASSOCIATION.)
A .BUSH TRAGEDY.
' . -f. i ■ Auckland, Kobniary 7.- ' ■ ,^Mr.;.Bush,, manager of: tlio • Kauri iTimber Company, wlulc liispecl'iinK bush. in the Kapowai district,''Coromandel, yesterday, found tlio body of a middle-aged man in an unused shanty. The 'man,' whoso body is yet un-j identified,, had :bben .dead about:hvo months;
.. 'A boy-named Alfred Hought'dn, lo years of ago, belonging to .Soiithport'. /Ehglaiid; met with _an • accident„ iit 11 -o'clock .-yesterday 'm6rniiig through falling down the aft,or. bold of the steamer Rippiiigiiam'(irhiige;' a distance of about 20'fcct... Tlio lad.-'who' is 'making the,round, trip 111 the vessel, was standing in'tlio 'h oen (Leks watching tlio mon discharge.: cargo;wheii'" lieappears :to ; have walked backwards,- not',knowing •ho v/as-' so neir the of .the. lm.tehw'oyf .Dr;iGilmwwas.,canerr,to j nttciid. tlio .hoy, and found linn conscious afld-'not' dahgeroiisly hurt, although he'-'jras spyetely: bruised al)ou , t' i the libad' and. b*ick, and had to be' removed to the liospi-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 February 1908, Page 7
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