A Fatal Snakebite.
Patrick O'Rourk*. a welMtOowa , firmer, residing witbin a few miiea A frf ICilmore near Mellkfurn* wu fatally bitten by a tiger-snake on 29 b " filarob. O'Roorke, who w& seventy. four years of age, went to a barn to get some hay, when he felt a prick on the little finger, of hia right hand. Fearing that it was a bi*fe from a snake he at once wentto tffa house and had th° finger bound' up tod acarin-d. O'Rourkp* naweyer, ' gradually got worse and died.
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Manawatu Herald, 8 April 1899, Page 2
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87A Fatal Snakebite. Manawatu Herald, 8 April 1899, Page 2
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