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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BOY DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, Tuesday. Victor Sibres, aged thirteen years, 'was drowned in a dam at Millerton wkile bathing. A BODY RECOVERED. Westport, Tuesday. The body of one of the victims of the blasting accident . was (found Hal the Buller river, half a mile below the scene of the accident, this morning. The body was intact with the exception of the head. DEATH OX A STEAMER. Westport, Tuesday. Jaines Condon, a passenger by the Arahura from Greymouth, died on board as the vessel was leaving Westport this morning. KILLED BY A TAXI-CAB. Auckland, Tuesday. Charles Goldsmith, a single man between 40 and 45 years of age, employed as a gardener and believed recently to have come from Napier, was killed almost instantaneously last night as the result of being knocked down by a taxicab. Goldsmith alighted from a tramcar and went round the back, where he was knocked over by a taxi-cab driven by Joh» Mercer.

A YOING (URL'S DEATH. Christchureh, Last Night. Dairy Florence Turner, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, in the service of Mr?. Hy. Norwood, at St. Albany was found dead in 'bed this morning. The gas in the bedroom was turned on. and death was apparently caused by asphyxiation. The inquest was opened this afternoon. The evidence showed that the girl was found dead shortly after seven o'clock, and that the post mortem examination showed that the probable cause of death was poisoning by an illiiminant gas. The coroner stated that in view of private medical information given him lie would reserve his verdict, in order to enable a microscopical examination being made of the girl's jiight attire.

DEATH FROM INJURIES. Dunedin, Last Night. Charles John Avers, aged 28 years, who met with an accident at Hudson's biscuit factory on September 21, died in the hospital to-day. While Ayers was on a ladder making alterations to a pulley; one of the rungs broke, and hb fell some 15 feet to the ground, striking the edge of a trolley and severely lacerating his abdomen. He had sufficiently recovered to be able to get out in the hospital grounds, but two (lays ago he took a turn for the worse.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 5

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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 5

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