Fatalities
[.FIB UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION.} Auckland, January 6. A gumdigger named Lorimer was drowned at Aratapu, by falling into the river. A man named Frank Bartholomew, a prisoner undergoing a sentence in Mount Eden goal, fell into a gunpit while working at Fort Cautley, and died of concussion of the brajn. A gumdigger, Richard' Eod well, was found dead in bed at Northern Wairoa. The cause was spasms of the heart, the result of drink. Dunedin, January 6. A little boy, seven years of age, was killed by the tramway in the north j end this afternoon. The boy was in the act of crossing King-street to join his father, a baker, who was standing with his cart on the opposite side, when a car knocked the boy down, ran over him and killed him. The driver sang out to the boy when he saw him, but too late. The whole occurrence took place in th.c view of the father, who was unable to do anything. He absolves everyone from blame in the matter.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 83, 7 January 1890, Page 2
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174Fatalities Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 83, 7 January 1890, Page 2
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