ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.)
WESTPORT, June 7. A miner named John Leece, about 45, years,, married, with ten in his family, died in the hospital to-night as the result of a fall of coal in the Westport Coal Co.'s Mine Creek mine this' afternoon. Deceased was formerly a newspaper proprietor in New South Wales.
t i wii- June 7. John \\ llliams, a widower, aged '3, was found dead in bed this afternoon. Death is supposed to have been from natural causes. The surroundings were dirty and squalid. A Post Office bank-book with a credit balance of £140 was found in the house.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8305, 8 June 1907, Page 6
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