ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
■ FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. A telegram received from Haveloek yesterday by Inspector Ellison states that Mrs. Miller, of ■ Canvastown, was thrown from-a trap whilst driving along tho Canvafctown Road on Thursday night. The horse Mrs. Miller was driving bolted, down a hill and she was thrown out, sustaining. a fracture of the base of the skull, as a result ;of which injury she died within three-quarters of an hour. - An inquest was to bo held yesterday. SUDDEN DEATH OP A COOK. : Chrlstohurch, January 15 A man named William Banks', cook at a grass-seed camp at l'uaha, Little Rivor died suddenly yesterday morning. He had undergone .an operation ten months ago' for appendicitis. A post-mortem examination showed that a stoppage in the'region that had i been affected had caused death.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 6
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