ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
About half-past ten yesterday morning an elderly man, Allan Ward, fell from a stack of iron at the A good Shed, Christchurch railway station. He alighted on the edge of the crane bed on the base of his spine, and ior a time was partly unconscious. He was removed in an express to the Hospital, and is now doing a3 well as can be expected. An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon on the three-days-old child of Mrs Seabourne, Sydenham. The jury, of which Mr J. C. Bowler was foreman, returned a verdict to the effect that deceased died through being unable to take sufficient nourishment. The little fellow Gapes, who was injured by a tram recently at Snraner, is rapidly improving under treatment at the hospital. (PRSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, January 26. A son of Win. Smith, at settler, aged four years,- was drowned in a creek near Waiuku.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 8703, 27 January 1894, Page 5
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