NAPIER.
Fatal Accident.
This day,
Ben Smith, a well-known architect, formerly of Wellington, while crossing the railway bridge this morning at Waipawa, was run over by the train, and killed. Deceased was seen by the driver to hold on by the girders as the train approached, but, while it was passing it is thought be must have become giddy, and fell forward. Smith was superintending the erection of a large mansion for Mr J. Harding, of Mount Vernon, of which he was the architect.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 2
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84NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 2
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