ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NELSON, December 13. Information has been received by the police that a settler named Walter A. Gainsford, a young married man, was found shot dead last evening on a hill at Mangapeka He had gone to muster stragglers, taking a gun with him. GREYMOUTH, December 13. Patrick McDonald, aged 33; employed at the Coal Creek Railway Extension Works, when proceeding to his camp last night fell over a cliff, a distance of 100 feet, striking a rock and being killed instantaneously. GISBORNE, Decehmer 13. Robert Martin, aged 68, a labourer, dropped dead in town on Saturday evening. He had been in good health up to noon that day. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of death. Hugh O'Connor, a labourer employed by the Public Works Department, was drowned in the Waihuka River yesterday afternoon; whilst having a swim.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9675, 14 December 1909, Page 5
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147ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9675, 14 December 1909, Page 5
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