Fatal Accident.
(Br Telegraph.) DUNEDIN, June 7. James Renton, aged 23 years, a plasterer, was hilled whilst at work at the new municipal buildings, Bort Chalmers. By some oversight he stepped off the scaffolding, which is 4 feet wide, and fell a distance of some 30 feet, alighting on his head. On being picked up ho uttered a groan, and died. He was a most respectable young man, and the main support of his mother, who, singularly enough, was made a widow by a similar accident eighteen months ago.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5028, 8 June 1889, Page 2
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89Fatal Accident. South Canterbury Times, Issue 5028, 8 June 1889, Page 2
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