ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
{Tib Psbbb Association.] A COACH ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, Sbpt. 7. A very serious accident happened to the mail coach going intoPaeroa this morning. In going down a steep hill near Owharoa the brake gave way. There was a full load of passengers. The ooaoh capsized, and the passengers were all thrown out. The coaoh, turned completely over, was carried to the bottom of the hill and over the bridge at the foot by the terrified horses, and completely wreoked. All the passengers -were more or less hurt. ' The driver, Mr J. O'Donnell, had an ankle dislocated, and Mr J. Hatton an arm put out. Mr Gray, of Tauranga, was badly knooked about. MASTERTON, Sara. 7. A youth named William White, son of a sohool teaoher at Masterton, has been drowned in the Ruamahunga River.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5357, 7 September 1895, Page 5
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