PROVINCIAL NEWS.
[united press association.]
A fatal accident occurred this morning at the Petone railway workshops. A young man named Albert James was engaged in fitting on a driving belt on a pulley, and for this purpose was standing some ten feet from the floor. He evidently slipped and fell on to the pulley, which threw him head first on a saw bench, and thence to the floor. He was conveyed by special train to Wellington, bub died on reaching the hospital.
Tauranga, August 19. A fatal accident occurred to-day at the town wharf. A carter, named William Kirwin, fell down the hatchway of the s.s. Wellington, and was picked up insensible. He died shortly after from the injuries he received, the apparent cause of death being nervous concussion.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2547, 20 August 1884, Page 2
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