ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. |Bt Telegraph. I [united press association. I Christchukch. This Day. A man named Brown, employed for a number of years as shunter at the Christchurch Railway Station, was killed this morning. It appears he wa3 engaged shunting a coal truck, and while running in front caught his foot in a check point, and fell. The truck passed over him, killing him instantaneously. He was a married man, with a family of five. Auckland, This Day. James M'Kenzie, of Ponsonby, storekeeper, died suddenly yesterday afternoon. He was out with his cart, came home drunk, and went upstairs to his bedroom. TTia wife went to see if he was all right, and found him kneeling on the floor, with his face buried in the bed clothes, dead. It is supposed that he was accidentally suffocated, or had a fit of apoplexy. He had been drinking heavily of late. Mr. John Ebenezer White, one of the original discoverers of the famous Shotover Mine, in Hunt' 3 claim at the Thames, has died of disease of the brain and paralysis.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 43, 19 August 1892, Page 2
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