Accidents and Fatalities
(per pbess association.) Nelson, February 26. Yesterday afternoon a road contractor named .Robert Henry McCoombes, working at Wairoa Gorge, was pushing a piece of rock off the line of road, when , he fell with it over a precipice, falling ' 100ft, His son, who was no king ni ii him, and ooher-, found him dying when ; i hey readied him At the inquest to day a verdirt was returned of accidental dentil, resulting from fracture of the , skull and vertebra. , ( Ashbubton, February 26 i The young man Shepherd, who was < injured 'by a fellow farm servant jump imf on his back i.o a lark, died ye>terday.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 106, 28 February 1891, Page 2
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108Accidents and Fatalities Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 106, 28 February 1891, Page 2
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