ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. yesterday. Ail adjourned inquest touching the death of ‘a newly horn child of Lilian Hobbs, a waitress employed iiit one. of the city restaurants, was held' yesterday. A verdict was returned that the death of the child was due to neglect on the part of the mother. The mother was. then charged' with concealing the birtli of the child, and was remanded till next Wednesday. A boy named Holloborn was struck on the head with a tramway trolley pole, on the Woolston line yesterday afternoon, and was very seriously inJU,etl ' DUNEDIN, Oct, 23. At hn inquest held to-day as to the death of George Grant Smith, who was run over by railway trucks at Port Chalmers on Monday, a verdict was returned that the cause of death was shock, the result of being accidentally run over by a railway train. The jury added that it was of opinion that greater precautions should ho taken during shunting operations on the Port Chalmers wharf. . . United Press Association — Copyright MELBOURNE, Oco. 23.
Five trucks of a stock train broke away, ran down hill, and collided with another stock train at Ravenswood, on the Bendigo line. The driver, named Booth, was killeld.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2219, 24 October 1907, Page 3
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203ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2219, 24 October 1907, Page 3
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