ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A fatality occurred at Invercargiil on Saturday night to the driver (named Aspray) of the last tramoar from Gladstone. The night was very wet, and as no one was on the platform with him, the time at whioh the accident happened is unknown. He had a habit in bad weather of sitting sidelong on the Bplash-board, and it is supposed that he dropped the reins and fell over in an attempt to grasp them. The car wheel had gone over the jaw and throat, and he must have died instantly. The accident was not discovered till the horses ran into another car shunting into the stables. Aspray was the son of a widow, and was extremely popular. He had been in the service since it started, eight years ago. WELLINGTON, January 5. A chemist at Palmerston North, named Williams, was found dead in his bed yesterday. As he was known to be in the habit of taking morphia, it is supposed this had something to do with his death. INVBRCARGILL, January 5. Mr Henry Manders, a former representative of Lake Wakatipu in Parliament, * died suddenly this morning.
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Evening Star, Issue 8405, 5 January 1891, Page 2
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190ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Evening Star, Issue 8405, 5 January 1891, Page 2
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