ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
(IT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NAPIER, 10th February. The police received word this evening that Robert Mercer Hughes, the seven-teen-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hughes, had been found drowned in a creek at Puketitiri at 5.45 p.m. today. It appeared that the little chap fell through a broken bridge into the shallow creek. The body was found an hour and a-heftf after the child was missed. WANGANUI, February 10. The police have received information that a roadman named Bert Jones was drowned in the Wanganui river, off Kaiwaiki Pa, at 5 p.m. GISBORNE, This Day. R. G. Black, a sheep farme^ of Pakowhai, whilst mustering sheep, fell with his horse down a steep hill-face, and sustained a serious injury to his back. - He lies in a precarious condition. Black went out with a shepherd at 5 a.m., and arranged to meet the latter at 8 a.m. at a fixed point. The shepherd, arriving at the appointed timo and failing to find Black, made a search, and discovered him injui-ed at the foot of a cliff, bib horse having evidently lost its footing on a razor-back ridge.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 35, 11 February 1914, Page 8
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189ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 35, 11 February 1914, Page 8
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