FATALLY INJURED WHILE DIVING
DUNEDIN, Saturday. Lieutenant Kirkham, of the City Rifles sustained injuries in the St. Clair Baths to-day, which it is fear-Hl -will prove fatal. No. 1 Battalion is in camp on Forhury Hill, and Lieutenant Kirkham anti other officers went for a swim in the baths. He took a dive, and as he did not rise the others dragged him ashore, when it was found that he had sustained serious injury to the skulLeither by -striking the bottom or a ledge of rock. He was removed tothe hos] i tai where he is unconscious-, wilh little hope of recovety. He is. the ■.on ol an Apglt- | can clergyman, who some year, 'ago was stationed afc Roslyn, but io not known to have relation*; in the colonies noWj
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 15 December 1902, Page 3
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