FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS
The ' Lyttelton Times' stales that the woman Dalziel, who drowned her child in the Rakaia, has not yet recovered consciousness, but she is rapidly improving, and hopes ate now entertained of her recovery, WOODVILLE, January 5. A man named Cully was killed while last evening. He leaves a widow and two children.
M'Taggart, a boy living at the Gorge, received severe injuries to his face last night while playing with blasting powder. GREYMOTJTH, January 5.
Two young lads met with rather serious accidents at the Kaita picnic. Philip Skoolund fell out of a swinging-boat'; and M. Morrissey fell out of the rigging of the Rio while witnessing the regatta, and split his skull. He would have been killed but that in his fall he struck a boy named Martin on the shoulder and back, injuring him badly.
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Evening Star, Issue 7411, 5 January 1888, Page 3
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