ACCIDENTS.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, December 1. Charles Maider died at Queenstown; on Sunday from the effects of a dose of' a mixture of antimony, which ha nus-i took for whisky. He' was frightfully burned abojit the mouth and internally, and lay for six hours before being discovered. CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. Frederick Curtis, an old employee of; Messrs Matson and Co., was run over' by a truck yesterday at Addington Station, and killed instantly. Ho to .proceeding to unload some pigs front a truck, when ho was struck down. GISBORNE, December 1. An elderly man named John Cummin*, head shepherd at Rangarira Station, was found dead in a woolshed this morning. It is supposed to he a caso of suicide. AUCGLAND, December 1. At midnight on the 28th November * man named James Eraser was knocked, off bis vessel near Mobutapu owing to the mainboom striking him on'tho head. A boat was but no trace of Fraser could be found. Deceased came from Sydney. '
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4826, 2 December 1902, Page 5
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