ACCIDENTS.
A DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. Press Aseociation-Bv Telegraph-Copyright PERTH, March "10. A brother and sister named Noalk, aged respectively eight and twelve, were found dead in. a paddock, each with a- bullet in the forehead, arid a broken pea-rifle, which the boy had been carrying, lying near. It is snrITIISGCx til Hi/ til© foov sliotv lllS tlC—cidentallv and then took bis own life in remorse. KILLED BY TRAIN. Per Press Association. ' WAIPAWA, March 15. Henry Burkin, a single man, was killed at a railway crossing last night by the expre&s train. DOUBLE SUICIDE. I NEW YORK, March 14. Dr Benson, aged 73, and his wife, aged 67, swallowed poison at the breakfast table in a Philadelphia, hotel, and died immediately. .They were disappointed owing to their failure 'to win a prize of £40,000 offered by the French Academy of Medicine for a cure for tuberculosis. FARMER DROWNED. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH. March 17. Charles Frederick Cambridge, aged 32, married and a farmer, was drowned yesterday through the capsize of a boat ufed as a punt, a wire rope which broke causing the accident. Cambridge's father resides at Belfast near Christchurch.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14156, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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189ACCIDENTS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14156, 16 March 1910, Page 5
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