ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
Auckland, This day,
Mrs Stoen, aged 85, died on the passage of the Rotomahana from Wellington to Auckland. The coroner, Dr Philson, declined to hold an inquest, believing that death arose from old age and debility. GisnoitNE, This day. A man named Boatty was dangerously gored by a bull yesterday. Wanganui, This day.
A man named G. Moyle was killed at Goat Valley, about four miles from town, yesterday, by the falling of a tree. He was working with another man, who was felling the tree, aud when tho tree was about to fall his companion called out to him to got out of the way. Not hearing anything in reply the man went to look, and found the tree had struck another tree and fallen on Moylo's head. An inquest was held, at which a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mastejiton, This day. James Woods, the driver of a truck on tho Mastcrton railway works, slipped while detaching a horse this morning, and a loaded truck passed over his arm and thigh. He died from the shock within half-an-hour. He arrived from the South Island in February last, and was a young man and single.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3991, 7 May 1884, Page 3
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