FATAL ACCIDENT AT ROTORUA
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Rotorua, Thursday. A painful accident occurred here yesterday, resulting in speedy death. While a party of natives were employed in clearing a spot in the neighbouring bush for cultivation one of their women so engaged, while running away from a falling tree, tripped and fell on a sharp stump, a portion of the tree pinning her through the breast. Strange to say, she was not killed instantaneously, but lingered while being conveyed in a cart to the township. Death put an end to her agony on the journey. Being a woman of no mean rank, and one much respected by all who knew her, considerable numbers are gathering from all quarters to join in the tangi.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9129, 10 August 1888, Page 5
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