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The body of Harry Holroyd, one of the victims of the recent flood in Otago, was found on Sunday in three feet of water at East Taieri.
A child named Massey has died at Blenheim from the effects of burning. It was lighting a fire when clad in its nightdress, and the flames caught the garment. At the adjourned inquest at Christchurch on the body of the young man named Jordan, who died in the hospital on Thursday last,it was shown that arsenic had been discovered in the contents of the stomach and in the vomit, and a box of “ Bough on Bats” was found in the house where he resided. A verdict was returned of “ Suicide while temporarily insane.” John Dickinson, an employe at the Boslyn woollen Mills, left Kaikorai • Valley on Saturday with a fellow employe for a ride to Outram. On the return journey they commenced to race the horses, Dickinson subsequently being found lying unconscious on the road a mile from Boslyn. He died early on Sunday. He leaves a grown-up family. It is said he had been drinking.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2319, 16 February 1892, Page 3
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186ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2319, 16 February 1892, Page 3
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