Accidents and Deaths.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 13. James Wallace, of Papatoetoe, one of the best known farmers in the district, died on Saturday as the result of an accident last Wednesday when he was knocked down by a tale of pressed hay and fell from a barn loft to the floor. A sudden death occurred in the vestry of St. David's Presbyterian Church yesterday, just as morning service was about to commence, the deceased being Mr William Anderson, an elder of the church, and a well-known resident. It is the custom at St. David's for minister and eMers to kneel in prayer prior to the service, and Mr Anderson was engaged in this devotion when lie fell prone and expired from heart disease. Mr Anderson came to Auckland in the early days, and for about a quarter of a century was in the service of the City Council, as city engineer for the greater i art of that time. INVERCARGILL, June .13. A Chinaman named Li Kan was killed by a fall of earth in a claim at Round Hill on Saturday. The owner of the claim had been injured by a previous fall, and had put on the Chinaman as a substitute. A single man, Wm. Heed, grocer's assistant, was lying asleep on the AplJiby railway platform on Sunday evening, when the Bluff tram approached, and his left leg was caught between the step of a carriage and the platform. It 'was broken about the knee, and the thigh was badly mangled, the muscles leing torn. WELLINGTON, June 13. An apparent attempt at suicide waa made at Newtown to-lay Agnes Rhodes, wife of a steward on the steamer Penguin, was found by the caretaker of the Newt'iwn Park apparently asleep. liesiilu her were notes indicating that she had taken chlorodyne, owing to domestic troubles. She is now in the hospital, and is likely to recover. GIS!!OItNE. .Line V.I. A message from Port Anuniii States that William Aspmnil was •drowned this afternoon, while trying to cross ths Waiapu river.
CABLE NEWS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)..
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 137, 14 June 1904, Page 3
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349Accidents and Deaths. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 137, 14 June 1904, Page 3
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