SHOCKING ACCIDENT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUNEDIN. 6th September.
The petitions in favor of opening the Museum on Suuday have received over 6000 signatures. Scarlet fever is greatly on the increase at Port Chalmers. A private letter reports the death in Melbourne of Mr. John W. Smith, well-known in theatrical circles. Longuet's defalcations amount to something over £4000. A shocking accident occurred at Kensington this afternoon. A lad named Hay, aged eleven years, went to the brickworks there, and in attempting to go aloft, was caught in the machinery, and killed instantaneously, his head being almost severed from his body.
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Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 210, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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100SHOCKING ACCIDENT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUNEDIN. 6th September. Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 210, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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