ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
15 v Tc,le"rn till.—Tress Associ.it inn. ( dirislchurch, Lust Ni"ht. A f ;i! m 1 accident occurred in ill'.* tiin - In r yard of Messrs William White anil Co.. Add hurt on. to-day. A laborer named Charles Caesar, who had hsen employed bv Messrs Wiiite and Co. for some years, was engaged in star-kin" limber, ami while standni" on lop of a slack about Sfr. hi'jh. he fell to the "round, lire;-,kin" his neck. Deceased was a married man with a family, and was about (ii) years of ace. He was well known and respected in the district. Thames. Last Xiiditv Fuels rein I imr to the lindiii" of (he (had body of William Walters. -I.") years of a"e. on th" road einhl miles from Tlianns. are that deceased and a fallow eon I met or 1 - f 1 camp to meet the county engineer. They mi-'-e-l him, and on returnin'.' were overtaken hv darkness. Tim mate lil a fire and declined to yn on. Walters look a hinhrn. hein" ueterminel to push on and reach home, lie was found next morniii" in the bed of a creek'. II is surmised he tripped and fell end received a s’h.dii concussion and was rendered miconschms. lie died from exposure, as the ni"ht was an exceptionally- cold one. A verdict was returned accordingly. Chrislchurch. Last Xi'Mit. A man named McClor w- - "ored hr a Imll "t Lower Riccarton this morniii". The ledl vrslmd from the road into a n.addock. McClor k'id. Cm rate open for i; to puss 1 h'-r.nnh. hut it rushed at him and injured him severely on the leant. I'epne’-niiof Cor" X<-rer fids Is For Inllmm-n taka Woods’ Croat Gd, ‘2B Gd.*
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 8
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