ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SUDDEN DEATH. Glsborno, June 17. Thomas Holmes, aged 50, working on a road contract in the Motu district, died suddenly last night. THE LYTTELTON RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Christchurch, June 17. This afternoon it was reported that there was no chance in. tho condition of Mr. J. " Gilroy, chief engineer of tho Kaituna, who lost both feet through having been run over, bysome railway tiucks at Lyttoltcm on.Mon- ' day afternoon. An inquest was held by Dr. A. M'AHhur,' S.M., yesterday afternoon on the body of a female child four weeks old named M'Dougail. daughter of Mrs. Beatrice M'Dougall, a visitor from the South, who was staying ill Boulcott Street. Evidcnco showed that tho child went to sleep on the breast of its mother on Tuesday night, and was found dead on Wednesday morning. Dr. Pollen was called in at once, and pronounced life extinct. Tho "jury brought in a verdict that the child died .from suffocation, no blamo being; attachable to anyone.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 227, 18 June 1908, Page 7
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