ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Press Association. Auckland, June 8. A veterinary surgeon, Walter Henry Hawthorne, residing at Quell unga, died yesterday from the effects, it is supposed of a dose of a mixture used in the treatment of horses. Deceased was 44 years of age and leaves a wife and five children. He was one of the veterinary surgeons brought to the Dominion by Government eight years ago, and recently severing his connection with the took up private practice at Ouehunga. Thames, June 8. While working in the slopes at Kerikeri mine near Thames, Thos. Henderson, miner, was killed and Robert Cato, seriously injured, by a fall of quartz. The men had fired a shot in the previous crib time and after the meal returned to the face. Henderson was stooping over the quartz when a fall struck his hack, breaking it, crushing his ribs, and causing other fearful injuries. He was killed, instantly. Cato was injured about tiie head and is now in the hospital.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9165, 8 June 1908, Page 4
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9165, 8 June 1908, Page 4
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