ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
LOST OVERBOARD: GALLANT RESCUES. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright V - LONDON, June 10. ; Tha barque Serena, 'bound from Melbourne to Queenstown during a gale .on March 18th, had four of the crew swept overboard and drowned. the captain, at. the risk of his life, was chiefly instrumental in rescuing two others who were holding on to a rope in icy water, at the ship's - tside. (Per PrtGi Association.) PAHIATUA, June 11. At the inquest on the body .of John Beaufort, a surveveir, who ! was'killed by falling .down'-a ; staircaie, the jury found thjit- death resulted while under. ths intoxication of- liquor. WANGANUI, June 11. Samuel Wilson died this morning from, the result of an" Accident last evening, -when through a collision he was thrown out of a trap on'to his head. - He . never recovered consciousness. WELLINGTON, June 11. The woman who died suddenly in the city on .Sunday has been identified as Mary Murray.. •
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13310, 12 June 1907, Page 5
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