ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DEATH AT THE GRAVE SIDE Tub Prkss. Association. Dunedin, July 21. While a body was being interred in the East Taieri Cemetery yesterday, the man who dug the grave, Robert M. Christie, expired in the presence of the mourners. Deceased who was an old identity was acting for the re-gular-gravedigger whose mother had died. He was 71 years of age. DANGEROUS RAILWAY CROSSING Auckland July 21. A serious accident happened at the railway crossing at King Street Newmarket this afternoon. Robert Barber baker and confectioner of Knrangahape Road, who was driving a trap out of town to his farm in the country, went by way of Newmarket, and jat the King Street crossing, which lias been the scene of a number of bad accidents on previous occassions ,his conveyance was run into by the incoming Kaipara train, at about halfpast fotir. The horse was killed instantly,'and the vehicle was smashed into matchwood. Barber was thrown out and was severely injured. He was unconscious when picked up, and was at once taken to the hospital . “IN BAULK.” Invercargill, July 21. The police have received word that Robert Henderson, aged 70, a man of independent means ,dropped dead this evening while playing billiards at Waikaia,