NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
(per press association.) " Death by Drowning. Dunedin, This Day. Mrs Annie Wrigley Coulter, forecabin stewardess on the Victoria, on returning to the boat at eleven o’clock last night after visiting friends, fell over the wharf and was drowned. Cou'ter was a widow between 45 aud 50 years of age, and belonged to Melbourne. So far as can be ascertained she had no family, and was formerly stewardess on board the Weslralia. She had been in the employ of the Huddart Parker Company about three years. Accident on the Railway, Wellington, Tkis Day. A shunter named Frederick William Swift, employed at the Petone Railway Station, was accidentally killed whi’e shunting shortly before midnight. A queer feature about the accident is that Swift’s body was found clear of the rails. It apparently had not been, run over, though the neck was broken, the jaw clisloca'ed, and a deep gabh on the side of the nock. No one saw the 'acch dont. It is supposed that deceas’d was struck by something when jumping eff the truck. Ho was 21 years of age.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 January 1903, Page 3
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182NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. Greymouth Evening Star, 22 January 1903, Page 3
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