ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
[Ter Press Association.]
FBILDING, March 25,
Yesterday the wife of Mr D. P. Buchanan, of Beaconsfield, was found dead under a cliff near the house. WELLINGTON, March 25.
Word has been received from Kaikoura that a man named Blade has been severely injured by a dynamite explosion. He is being sent up to the Wellington Hospital by steamer. DUNEDIN, March 25.
Yesterday afternoon, by the upsetting of an open sailing boat when opposite Waverloy during a sudden squall, Harry Raynbird, aged seventeen years, and Albert Thorn, aged eleven, were drowned. Three other occupants of the boat were rescued. The accident occurred three hundred yards from the shore.
The body of the boy Thorn, who was drowned in the harbour yesterday, was recovered to-day.
Yesterday afternoon a man named Joseph Morrell, while walking in Madras Street, slipped on a banana skin lying on the footpath near St John’s Church, and broke his leg. He was taken to the hospital.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11538, 26 March 1898, Page 5
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