FATALITIES.
A KABBITER’S ADVENTURE. ACCIDENT IN BUSH, [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Napier, last night. A man named Joshua Jones, employed as a rabbiter on the Hon. J. D. Ormond’s Wallingford station, was drowned on Sunday in a somewhat peculiar way. Jones, in company with another, was driving in a wild beast to kill as food for his pack of rabbiting dogs, when the animal went into a creek, and on being followed it stuck Jones up ; he dismounted, but was eventually knocked into the water. His companion got him out quickly, " but life was extinct.
A man named Anderson was killed at Matamau through a tree falling on him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 117, 28 May 1901, Page 2
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