ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
TWO LITTLE CHILDREN DROWNED. (BI TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 12th May. Two little children, Rachel and Richard Corban, wandered away from their home in Grey Lynn to-day and got into a flooded creek, three or four feet deep. The mother's attention was directed to them by cries of distress, and she rushed to the creek. She recovered the body of the boy, but all ef> forts to restore, respiration failed. The water^ was so muddy that the body of the girl was not found for somo time. An inquest will be held. INVERCARGILL, 12th May. George Elliot, twenty years of age, and a dairy factory employee, shot himself in a boardinghouse at Nortfi Invercargill this evening. No reason is known for the act. At the Coroner's enquiry, concerning the death of Christian M'Kinnon, aged 70 years, who died at Otara, a verdict was returned that , death * was due to natural causes.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1914, Page 3
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153ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1914, Page 3
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