Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Nov. 1. A boy named Charles Morris was drowned while fishing at the Sugar Works wharf. Wellington, Nov. 1. A man named Monkhouse was picked up on the Rimutaka road today with his throat cut. He was brought to town and taken to the hospital. Waxganui, This day. At the inquest on the body of Samuel Henderson, found in the river on Sunday, a verdict of found drowned was returned. This morning the body of another man, Berirh Gough, about 15 years of age, was found by the river side below high water mark. He had evidently fallen over the bank 20 feet high on to the breastwork below. There was a nasty gash on his forehead. The deceased was seen yesterday afternoon the worse of liquor.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 466, 2 November 1897, Page 3
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