ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
0 BOY DROWNED. By Telegraph—Prcea Association. Dunedin, December 15.' Alexander Dippie, aged two and u iialf years, son of 11 r. Peter Dippie, settler, met' his duatli at Riverside, near lialclntha. ltis mother missed him for t.venly minutes, and found him lioating fiioe downwards in a backwater of tlio Slolyneux, .Mr. Dippie's house being near the rivor bank. DEATH FROSI PNEUSIONIA. An inquest was held by Sir. \V. G. Riddell, S.SL, yesterday, on Henry Harris, n returned soldier, who died suddenlv at. his residence. No. G!) Kent Terrace, on Saturday alternoim. Dr. \V. Kintritiu Eylt'e stated thai: he conducted-,iu uqstmortem examination, and iuu'ml that (letenvecl had been snlferiiiK from a weak heart and tubercular disease. There was also found a niece of metal embedded against a rib—a war injury.' Death was due to pneumonia. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. Harris, who was 88 years of alio, had no relatives in Now Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 13
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