ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
TWO MINERS KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, MondayTwo men, Frank W. Moore and William Brough, were killed in Ralph's mine, Hunfiy, by a large fall of stone and fireclay. Moore and a miner named Ward were working on the stone drive. Ward had moved a distance when the fall occurred, burying his mate and Brough, who was trucking to them. Ward escaped unhurt. Moore was about thirty years of age, and leaves a wife and five children. Brough was a single man, twenty-five years of age. He has a brother in the Nelson district.
MAORI CHIEF POISONED. Dargaville, Monday. lAm inquest was held on Saturday concerning the death of the Maori chief Marupapita. Evidence showed that deceased had been ill and got up on Wednesday night to take medicine but drank from a bottle containing spirits of salts by mistake, death ensuing next day. The verdict was "Death from poison, but evidence does not show how it was administered."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 2 August 1910, Page 5
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162ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 2 August 1910, Page 5
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