Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Sept. 13. At an inquest on Charles Sinclair, the lumper who died from injuries received while unloading timber from the Wcstralia, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a rider that blame was attributable to some one but that there was not sufficient evidence to prove who. Robert Johnson, a seaman on board the Terranora, dropped dead on the steamer at Whangarei. Palmef.ston North, Sept. 13. A man named W. -J. Dclahunty, a resident of Longburu, was found dead alongside the railway line near Tokomaru on Saturday. Deceased had a deep gash on the side of his face, and it is believed that he had been killed by the up train on Saturday evening. He leaves a wife and large family residing at Longburn.
"While playing football at Taita on Satui-Jay. a man named Ernest Clements, living at tna JliOiver Hutt, was seriously injured internally. It is supposed that he was struck in the back but when he was admitted to the Wellington Hospital on Saturday night, internal bleeding had started, and the man wad m a serious condition.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 425, 14 September 1897, Page 3
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