ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[ (per press association.) . Dunedin, February 24. ; A lad aged 17, eldest son of Mr John I Rowe, a builder at Onehunga, partook ) of a hearty meal of polonies, and the ■ following day became seriously ill and > died. It is supposed to be a case oi • poisoning. J Auckland, February 24. 1 An accident took place at Opotiki, ! whereby F. Butts' son, aged five, was ' t drowned. He was playing around a well in the backyard, overbalanced, and '. fell into six feet of water, striking his head on tbe bricks as be fell. Napier, February 24. 1 A fatal trap accident occurred at ' Pokowhai this afternoon, by which a lad named John Mundell, aged seven i years, son of Mr Adam Mundell, a ' livery stablekeeper of Hastings, lost his ; life. The horse jibbed and jammed the boy against a fence.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7397, 25 February 1902, Page 2
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