WAIMATE NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1926, Page 6

WAIMATE NEWS.

i’i»rsi: 111.s'l i’t»\ i;i>. \Y ELI.IX GT’I )\, July I’o. umiiicd f.•>idci!<-«- of Ail Alfred Ga • land lac iii/ht. Thu Imil.'iim was bevend fl«- town wafer area and only the fiiri iture was «.'i\i'd. The chimney fired in rhe afternoon and it is believed that 1> spark s •i.eild' red in the ceiling until i: Link • i i’-i a bL.ze about nine o’clock. Tin- house and outbuildings were inDENTAL DEATH A \undr; of i.tai death from • li'riwiiino v a- returned at Hie inquest on Henry Wii’iaei Reynolds, !<> years of um, •, !...<( bndv w:i. found in four ’ •<■l of wat rmi Sunday. The evidence ’-•■‘••■I t<. <1; i'Jo-..- v.hv Reynolds was un able to get out of the creek into whi i. h«- fell wld n returning from an eelspearing ex’ii'-dit ion Inf- 1 on Saturday night. Ono deponent theoris'd that a ji'ei e (>T foncing wire, which the do- • rased had round his che'-t to secure a •ack across, his back, must have con siderablv impeded (be movements of his arms when he fell into the "reek.