ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SAD FAMILY TRAGEDY. Per Press Association. Christchurclij April 4. A distressingly sad fatality occurred on the shores of Lyttelton harbour this morning, whereby -Mary Elizabeth Ivillick, aged 38 years, the wife of Edward Ivillick, residing at Linwood, met her death. Mr and Mis Killick and their four children left Taylor's Mistake at 9.80 and walked over to North-West Bay. After gathering some wood, they started to climb the cliff, Mrs Killick having ii stick in her hand. Her husband asked if she required assistance, as she complained of the steepness of the ascent. He was assisting her when she missed her footing, and fell down the cliff, a distance of 200 or 300 feet. Tlie husband went down, found her alive, and returned to Taylor's Mistake, on the way communicating by telephone with Lytteltor w feen Sergt. Ryan, Dr. Newell, anu another reached the spot in a launch they found Mrs Killick dead, with her skull fractured and other injur-
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 2
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162ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 2
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