Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.—Press Association,] Dunedik, July 11. Alexander Alexander, traveller for Sargood, Son- and Ewen, and the oldest commercial traveller on the road, died yesterday, aged 51, A man Darned James Bruce waß filled this evening at Sawyer's Bay by being run over by a train on the Port Chalmer's line. Nothing is known as to the circumstances, but it is presumed he was walking on the line. Bruce resided at Deborah Bay. Snow was falling throughout the evening. During the voyage of the barque Aloeslis from Newcastle, the cook, a man named Charles J. Miller, aged thirty«six years, while drawing a bucket of water, overbalanced himself and fell overboard. The ship was brought to the wind, aud the "boat lowered away and sent in search of the man, but without success, as the unfortunate fellow must have struck when falling overboard.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 12 July 1892, Page 3
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144Accidents and Fatalities. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 12 July 1892, Page 3
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