Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] Dunedin, August 3. William M'Kay, 80 years of age, died in the Benevolent Institution today, being choked by a piece of meat while eating dinner. A painful accident happened to a young man named Bert Sewell at Hinau Gully, Belvedere, a day or two ago". He was felling bush, and his axe, as he raised it for a blow, caught v in a vine, and being wrenched out of his hands came down across the shin and fleshy part of his left leg, inflicting an ugly wound.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 390, 4 August 1897, Page 2
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