ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wakapuaka, Ma* C ' 21. A distressing guu accident, bippene! here this afrernoin. A youth lamed Victor Honey, 16 years of age, who is oa a visit to tbe sfc it ion froru Adeiaide, was fouad dead on a b:idge a uplo of hundred yards f-om f-e cabl- office. He had gone ou- sbo itiig with a small lifle charged wi'h shot-, and in jumping from a bank which skirts the bridge the weapon must havn gone off, the chsrge lt-dung in hi.- reck. Death was apparently instantaneous. Honey was a bright iiiid p-ipuiar iud, and his tr iple end hw ca-t de -p glo-m over *he iit Is s;-t'lenient. Toe Nelson police have been communicated with, aod an inHT quejt will be he;d to-morrow.
Wang ax ui, March 21. R. J. Xivjs, 'in old and respected resident, -.Topped dead to-day wbiie herdiag ca> t-l-j oa iii.? farm on the Tura-kina-Bulls-road. Ha was 70 yeara of age, and Itavas a widow and grown-up family.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 86, 22 March 1902, Page 3
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169ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 86, 22 March 1902, Page 3
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