ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14610, 18 February 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Pbr Phkss Association.] STRATFORD, February 17. Word has been received here that Mi- J. R. Wilson, of Gordon Road, took a drink of sheep dip in. mistake for hop beer this morning, and expired before medical aid arrived. DUNEDIN, February 17. Albert Brown, thirteen, a son of William Brown, Waikouaiti, was drowned in the '■ Waikouaiti River yesterday while trying to Tescue a younger brother who was in danger. Alexander Warnoek, aped fifty, died suddenly at his residence, '" Canongate Street, this morning. A body, supposed to bo that ofAlexander Reed, a single man about ' forty years of age, was found in the '. Molynoux River near Clyde to-day. Reed, who was a rabbiter, waa last seen on January 7 near the river.