ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 27 March 1915, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED ON A LIFT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland,* March 26. Margery Eveline Dbwcs,' aged '24, daughter of the late A. .33. Dewes, whoso mother Par:iell, was killed instantly this morning.- She was ascending a lift in the Hobson Buildings, the lift being in charge of - Edward Renner, -aged 17. On-reaching the l second flqor Miss Dewes was getting out; and had one foot tin the lift and the other foot on the landing, when die lift suddenly dropped, and she was pinned with her back against the floor. > Some minutes elapsed before she was released. She was then quite dead. ,

A-CYCLIST KILLED.

Dunedin, Last Night, i Jolm Morrison, aged 45 years, was accidentally killed at Palmerston this morning. He'was'riding a bicycle alongside a moving traction engine, which drawing a threshing mill. The bicycle skidded, and he was thrown under the wheels of the mill, receiving fatal in L juries.'

A WHISKY COMBINE,

Received March -27, 12.4S a.m. Lndon, March 2G.

Dewar' asnd Buchanan's whisky companies have amalgamated, with a capital of five millions. There will be no public issue, the amalgamation being purely financial to enable the firms to meet the high taxes and high prices of raw materials. Otherwise they will maintain separate existence.

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