ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
1 PEESS-ASSOCrXTJOK. I Reefton, February 25. ! Tho body of John Smyth, who has beoh. missing for more than a year, has been found in tho scrub near the Little Grey . junction. Evidently deceased became ex- . hnusted and foil down and was unablo to: recover himself. .. Dunedin, February 25. v Edward Edwards, aged 67, has been found dead in a hut at Mount; Cargill, • where he had -been -living for 25 years. . . ■o ' Auckland, Felxruary 26. In tho Second Hurdle Race Handicap at • the Otahuhu Jockey Club's : meeting a serious accident occurred. Manila crossed her legs after jumping tho hurdlo oppositetho grand stand, and the three horses following fell in a'' heap—namely,; Lulu (McCalluin), New Boy (Donovan) and- Kanaka (Sharp). McCallum, who ' works for’. Mr, Anderson,' a livery- st able keeper at Eltham, .received a serious concussion of the brain. He was taken to tho hospital. Donovan was taken homo iu-.a cab. considerably ~ shaken., . Sharp walked: in, andiis a,.little hurt. . •
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3675, 27 February 1899, Page 5
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