BUSH ACCIDENT.
MAN KILLED AT WAIPU.
(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)
WHANGAREI, this day.
A young- man, aged 23, named Roderick McCauley, of Waipu, was accidently killed yesterday. Deceased was working with a brother falling logs in the Pipiwai Kiver, a branch of the Mangakahia. They were crosscutting a kauri log, which fell against a rate tree and stuck for a short time, when the rata came down and a branch struck McCauley, who died in five minutes after he was brought in last night, A Coroner's inquest is proceeding. At the inquest, held before Mr J. Bell, J.P., coroner, touching the death of Roderick McCauley, killed at Pipiwai yesterday, a verdict was returned of 'accidental death, no blame attached to anyone.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 29 March 1899, Page 2
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