Accidents and Fatalities.
« « (Per Press Association.) DUKEDIN, July 2. John Mensies was killed at Bannock burn through falliug over a steep face in a claim. Edward Clarke, an elderly man, in receipt of charitable aid, was found dead in bed at Clutha yesterday. WH.LIKOTON, July 2. At the inquest on the woman, Helena Parker, the evidence failed to show how deceased sustained the burns and a verdict of accidental death was returned. Tbm Day. A boy named Hansna Win!crl>urr, the fire-;eitr eld son of the manager of the State Farm at Levin, was drowued in a cttek yesterday. \n old man named Thou. Spencer, 60 years old, dropped dead in the same di« • triot. N api KB, July 2. Within ihe^Jast three days two deaths of men under Jhe influeuce of liquor have occurred One was Andrew Hanson, a laborer, who fell into the harbor on Saturday night. The verdict was accidentally drowned. A similar verdict was returned in the case of W. Fairbrother, a Meanee settler, who fell down in the road with his face in a water channel where there was but a few inches of water. A very old resident named William Parker, aged 71 years, dropped dead to-day from failure of the heart's action.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 3 July 1894, Page 2
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