ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Cecil L. Medder, aged about five years, was drowned in the railway water* reservoir at the Bluff on Wednesday. He had gone to the place with his brother for water, and while fishing for crayfish fell in. At the inquest on the body the verdict was in accordance with the evidence, the jury further expressing the opinion that) the reservoir should be at once fenced in.
The second officer of the barque Asterion, named Charman, fell to the bottom of the ship's hold at Napier yesterday, damaging his ribs and receiving other injuries. At the inquest held yesterday on the body of a two-year-old child named Cameron the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased died from convulsions caused by dentition and gastric catarrh.
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Evening Star, Issue 10243, 19 February 1897, Page 2
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