ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday, A. B. P.eynolds, senior, landing waiter of tho Customs Department, collided with two horses when cycling, and sustained serious injury to his head, being thrown against a kerbstone. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Wiijiam Lynsky was thrown from a trap on Saturday and killed. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
TIMARU, last nightTwo drowning accidents occurred during the holiday. Jas. Bray, a lau of Id, was drowned whilo attempting to cross a creek near Albury, and Alex. Ross, of Redcliffs, a young man, lost his life whilst bathing near the mouth of tho Wnitaki ■driver. It is supposed that he took cramp AUCKLAND, last night-. Richard Miller, a gumdigger was drowned at I-Iclensvillc on Christmas Eve. Ho was in a boat, and asked for the tow o f an oil-launch, but missed the lino thrown to him, fell into the water, and disappeared. Ou the fourth day out from >San Francisco, the fifth cook of the Ventura John Fennell, disappeared, and v js Opposed to have committed suicide by dropping overboard.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1083, 29 December 1903, Page 3
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