ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
BLASTING MISHAP. WHANGAREi, January 3. While ueiug dyuamite for blasting out stumps at the Wbanga«'ui Heads yesterday evening John AicLeod, a settler, aged seventy bad hid hand shattered through the premaexplosion of a charge. A DISTRESSING CASE. V . OHRISTCtIURCLJ, January 3. An Hccideut oi a distressing nature happened at 2.30 o'clock this morning, when Miss J. Robertson, dressmaker, of Temuisa, foil off tbo midnight traiu from D'jnedin to Christchurch. and was killed. Deceased boarded the train at Oamaru. The other passengers iu the same carriage noticed that she looked rery ill Near Studholme she took off her hat and cloak and went outside on the carriage platform. There, it is thought, she was taken ill. The pas-tentrers felt the carriage jolt, and finding her missing informed the guard, who ascertained that she had fallen between the carriages, and had been cut to pieces. When the remains were being picked up the body of a fully matured male child was found with them. OAMARU, January 3. The woman who fell off the traiu near Willowbiidge Jast night was Janet Robertson, dressmaker, aged 35. daughter of an old resident of Oamaru. She was employed in Temuka, and was returning there after a few days' holiday here.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7932, 4 January 1906, Page 5
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