Accidents and Fatalities.
LBy Telegraph.] i united press association.] Auckland, 29th December. A man named Robert Walker, aged 66, a gum digger, waa found dead on the roadside. Ho left hia whare for a flax-mill store to sell gum, and went to Dargaville, whore he spent his time at the hotels. Ho returned towards his camp, and got as far as the Maori church at Taita. On the 21st December he was Boon and spoken to by two men, who found him on the roadside very weak. He said that he had been there since the previous morning, bnt he had lain there two or three days. An hour afterwards he was found dead in the same place. The scrub around him was beaten down, showing where he had crawled about. Near him was found his swag, in which were some plums and suet, intended for a Christmas pudding. There also lay near him five bottles, all empty, bnt which had recently contained spirits, and which undoubtedly pointed to the cause of his death. Gisborne, 29th December. Mrs. Reardon, mother of Mr. Reardon, surveyor, broke a blood vessel yesterday, and died this morning.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 191, 30 December 1886, Page 2
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