CASUALTIES.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION- TELEGBAMS.) AUCKLAND, November 25. The dead body of Edward Wilson, accd 39 years, a tinsmith residing at Chelsea, was found lying face downwards in a snifter on Chelsea* road on Saturday. Death was duo to syncope. DARGAVILLE, November 25. A bush cook named Alexander Norton, 62 years of ago, who was formerly a sailor, stayed on Saturday night in the carpenter's cabin on board the barqucntine Titawa. A conviv.il evening had been spent, and yesterday morning Norton was found dead in the carpenter's berth, in which the carpen;cr, W. W. Gloak, was al.o and had evidently overlain the otfoer man. At the inquest a verdict of acciuentally overlain and suffocated while in an intoxicated coridition, was returned.
DUNEDIN, November 25. The body of Hugh Robinson, a wharf labourer who disappeared frcm his cot* tage in Dowlin~ street some days ago, was found in the harbour to-day.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14522, 26 November 1912, Page 7
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