ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
• ■ - -•»; "— (ntsss association tklkqbamr.) NAPIER, January 26. At the inquest on Mr Joseph Brady, coach proprietor, who was found snot through the head by a pea rifle in his stable early this morning, the evidence showed that he was in the nabit of remaining in the stable at night for hours to shob€ rate with the rifle, and that not long ago he fell asleep and the rifle exploded, he having a narrow escape. A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. •-■•••., ' DANNEVIRKE, January 26. ' News has just been received that (two men named Henry Brooks and William Ormond were killed by a fall of earth In a gravel pit at Ormondville, WELLINGTON, January 26. During the passage of the Tongariro, which arrived this morning, a trimmer, named B. England, was missed between Tenerifle and the Cape. f
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 9946, 27 January 1898, Page 6
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