ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(FIR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, June 24. The body of an elderly man named Pickard, aged 55, who is believed to have come from Wanganui, was found on the beach at Kilbirnie this morning. There were no marks of violence. The man had apparently been dead about •-.wo days, ] FATAL RESULT OF A QUARREL. C/HRiSTfjuuRCH, June 24. J. T. Daly, the victim of the midnight quarrel on Wednesday, died at .he hospital at 10 o'clock last night, without having regained consciousness. The two accused, who had been liberited on b: il *h<;u charged with assault, i n> re-arres'ed early this morning on charge of manslaughter. Ths post mortem 's being performed this alter- ■ oon, and ;he iLquest will ha held tomorrow morning. Daly was a member of the Canterbury Bowing Olub, and held the championship for New Zealand as a single sculler, and was one of the New Zealand team which visited Australia some years ago. He was also well known in athletic circles. Henry Harris Divers, who is said to have struck the blow which proved fatal, is an assistant steward on the Rotomahana, and the other accused, Thomas James Trounson, is a working jeweller in Obristchurch. Both are quite young men.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 106, 25 June 1900, Page 3
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