CASUALTIES.
(press association- TELECIUaS.' DUNEDIN, November 16. Mr Robert Parfitt Neale. sixty-seven years old, a resident of Port Chalmers, died last night while attending a prayer meeting in the Congregational Church, of which he was a member. He leaves a grown-up family of five daughters and three sons, one of whom is the assistant stationmaster of Dunedin. GISBORNE, November 16. At the inquest regarding the death of Frank Mason, at Waipiro. the evidence showed he had asked a friend to go for a walk, but would not wait until after lunch, and set off by himself. Half an hour later a Maori rode in with the news that Mason's body had been found in the surf. Dr. Davis said he had been treating Mason for nervous irritability for two years, and thought it most probable ine man had fallen upon the sand in a fit, and had been smothered. There were no indications of drowning, and the man's nostrils and throat were filled with sand. A verdict- was returned accordingly.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12353, 17 November 1905, Page 6
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