FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1786, 18 June 1906, Page 2

FATALITIES.

PUBLIO OFFICER FALLB DEAD FROM BICYCLE.

(Par Press Association.) Napier, last nigh

Mr R. H. Riddell, Deputy-Registrar of Deeds, dropped dead off bis bicycle this afternoon, when 03 cling on the Petane road He bad gone out for a ride, and was found by a mot iris', hi- biovo e being etil grasped in his band. H-ort failure is supposed to have been the cause of death. Hokitika, Saturday.

James Davidson, egad 72, an old pioneer of the Want Coast, was found dead in his bod at Ssafford this morning He had been ailiug for some little time past,

Au o'd man named Smith, who came out of the hospital ye terday, was eeen sitting on tbe protective wr-k- to-dav. Later bis body was saen timing in the river, but bifore it oiuld be readied it

disappeared, and has not yet boon re covered.

Dunedio, Stturday,

George Rose, son of a small grezmg runholder ai Wsitahuna, died from tbe effects of exposure and exhaustion. He was overtaken in a snowstorm on Waita huna heights whilo rabbiting.