ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
A Timaru P.A. message states that an inquest on the body of J. Grimshaw, a seaman on tho s.s. Ngatoro, who was drowned in the harbor on Saturday night, was held this morning. The evidence showed that tho vessel was about to pull out from tho wharf, when Grimshaw, despite warnings, jumped from the wharf to board her. Ho missed the vessel, and fell between her the wharf. He was picked up at once, but life was extinct. It was shown that the man had struck his head heavily either against the wharf nr the vessel. A verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned. John Hahab, a Syrian lad, aged five years, while amusing himself with a cartridge yesterday afternoon in Walker street, had his" hand injured through the cartridge exploding. He is in the hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 14548, 24 April 1911, Page 4
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140ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 14548, 24 April 1911, Page 4
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