ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Napier, May 28. A carter named William Maxey was found on Saturday night in his employer’s (J. and W. Prebble's) stables, sitting on the ficor with ins hack against the wall, and having a severe fracture in the back of the skull. He died yesterday morning without having recovered consciousness. After having a shave on Saturday night, Maxey expressed his intention of going to the stables to feed the horses, and it is conjectured that he must have been kicked by a horse and knocked against a post or other hard substance. Auckland, May 28. A child under two years of age, a daughter of Mrs. Harding, residing at Brunswick-street. Ponsonby, was drowned through falling into a bath. The mother found the child kneeling alongside the bath her clothes being saturated with water, and on picking her up found she was dead. Dunedin, May 28. Matthew Kirkwood was killed on tlie railway line near Balclutha on Saturday night. It is supposed that ho was lying asleep on the line, and that a slow train ran over him.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2370, 29 May 1906, Page 2
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