ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Per Press Association:
Christchurch, last night.
A lad named James Edward Herbert, aged 16 years, was drowned in tho river Hoatbcote yesterday. Deceased, with another lad. went out on the river in a small canvas boat. A heavy wind' was blowing, and a wave Btruck the vessel and sank her. Tbe second lad swam ashore, Deceased could not swim and sank. His body has not yet been recovered.
[ James Temple Fisher, who was post-maßter-generai in the Grey Ministry,’died yesterday, Bged 76 years. He was a native of Sandwioh, Kent, and before' coming to Lyttelton in the Charlotte Jane served several years in the British Navy. He took np farming at Heathcote, wbioh constituency ho represented for a number of years. He leaves seven sous and one daughter, ail married. One son, Mr W. S. Fisher, is clerk at tbe local Magistrate’s Court, ' '
Hastings,: last night. At the inquest on the late Samuel Blythe the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, caused by a fall from a window at Hastings on December 2dth.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1346, 5 January 1905, Page 2
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176ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1346, 5 January 1905, Page 2
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