i, . With deep regret we learnt on March 21st; that the recent accident at the Maitai Butts had teiuiinated fatally.* After 4lie operation by which Dis Boor and Leggatt amputated tho farm of the unfortunate youths John Frederick Kelly, thei Buffered gradually sank and he died yesterday moinmg. Kelly was a youth of more thau ordiu-
ary'promise; for the last three years he has beeti a pupil at the Nelsori College having won a Provincial -"Scholarship, and since he entered the Collegei he1 passed both' Junior and Sdnior Civil Service Examinations, whilst' tho year'before.last'he won a College Scholar-, .ship. At the time of the unfortunate Accident he was, readings up foivthe University Examinations,, .and besides making his mark as a scholar, he (had taken a, good position in the College clubs ; ,as a footballer, he.was one of the College team, and in the Cadet corps he was known as a. good marksman, and had recently been elected Corporal., ( '■ i
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Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3880, 29 March 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)
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