SHOCKING ACCIDENTS.
YOUNG- MAN KILLED.— WOMAN" BURNED TO DEATH.
(by telegraph.—press association.)
Dunedin, this day. Akfred Read, a lad imployed as porter at Dunedin railway station, was knocked down by a passing engine and severely injured on bhe head, face, hip and back.
A young man named Robert D. Wilkinson was killed on Saturday. He had gone out shooting on a pony, and it is surmised that the pony was startled by his firing or slipped and threw him. At any rate, on search being made on his nob returning at the usual time, his body was found quite dead. Gisborne, Friday. A Maori woman named Roko Kahawai was burned to death at Te Roro, near Awanui, on Tuesday night, during the absence of her husband ab a tangi over Hone Mokena. The woman usually kept a light burning consisting of a fab lamp, manufactured out of a shell and vegetable marrow. Ib is supposed to have caught the bed clothes, and that she was suffocated by the smoke, as she did not appear to make any attempt to escape. A Maori living near saw the whare ablaze, bub was too late to save the woman.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 256, 31 October 1887, Page 5
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