ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Blenheim, last night. A man named David Bell, aged 72, a carpenter, dropped dead at Sodden yesterday, it is supposed from heart failuro. He had no relatives in the colony. Auckland, last night.
A youth, aged nineteen years, named Walter Edwin Dyer, son of the licensee of the Nowton Hotel, fell from a fire escape last night while nailing oardboard over a broken window. He fell about twenty feet, and sustained injuries, from which he died this rnorniog. A bushman named McGuinness, who went into the bush near Wbitianga on Sunday to trip a dam, hue not been seen since. A fall of earth oconrred near the dam, and it is believed he was either buried or washed away.
Tirnaru, last night. William Holt, who was severely burned at the fire of Prayno’a stables, at Fairlie, on Sunday last, has succumbed to his injuries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1811, 18 July 1906, Page 2
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149ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1811, 18 July 1906, Page 2
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