INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). Chkistchckch, August 19. A man named Brown, employed For n number of years as a shunter at Christchurch railway station, was killed this morning. It appears he was engaeed shunting a coal truck, and while running in front caught his foot in a check point and fell, the truck passing over him, killing him instantaneously. He was a married man with a family of five. DrNEMN, August 18. A man named Kobcrt Bruce Hender* son Munro was killed on the railway line at Duneiin on Wednesday night last. A driver, in taking an engine to the slied at 2Q minutes to 1, thought he struck something, and on going back found the deceased. Death occurred almost at once. Auckland, August 19. The notorious pxsburglar F. Plummer during the week broke into the residence of his uncle Charles Plummer, a farmer at Hunin, and took a quantity of tools. gun, and ammunition. &c. Constable iVlcKnight and a farm servant arrived with a wnrrant and scoured the district to arrest him. They found him in some scrub, and challenged him to surrender. He took cover in a ditch and fired, and they returned the fire. Finding lit* did not fire again, tbej advanced to the ditch and found him dead. He was only married a few weeks ago.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 27, 20 August 1892, Page 2
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