FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Mr William Lawry,, an , old Timaru settler, engaged id’ the" supplying of atone for protecting the cliff on the north side of the bay, unfortunately lost bis life yesterday afternoon. lie was superintending the throwing down of stone from the ' top : of the cliff, which is about forty feet high, when [the piece of ground on which he was standing gave way and be fell with the slip to the beach below. The men at work hurried round to him, to find that ,he was completely buried in the fallen clay. A short time sufficed to extricate him, and he was taken to the hospital, but only survived the journey a few minutes.
Several fatal accidents are reported to have occurred in other parts of the colony yesterday. At Masterton yesterday afternoon a bookseller named Chinchen took his nephew,named Alfred Binden, to see him fall a small tree. The tree fell on the boy, who in running for safety, got in a more dangerous .position. The lad is so much hurt that there is no hope of his recovery. At the Bluff, regatta, l the sea being very lumpy, three outriggers capsized, ■with the result that one man, Mr A. Robertson, was drowned. A young man named Barclay, aged IS, who was out on a shooting expedition at Silver stream, Dunedin, went in to bathe and was drowned. A|.companion searching for him found him lying dead in the water. A man named William .Kenya, belonging to the cutter Mary Ann, was drowned at Matauringa by the capsizing of a sailing boat at a picnic; :
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2740, 4 January 1882, Page 2
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