ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
- ,-> [Per Press Association.] ' 1 NEW PLYMOUTH, August 3. ' .^"' le k o< ?y. of Mrs Pearson, who disappeared from here oh July 5, was found in the river at Wait ara this morning by a fisherman.' - DUNEDIN, August 3. ■ Michael Hickey, an old resident 1 " of Waipori, was killed' bv a fall. of earth- in the. Golden Key race. A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. A ■ sensational suicide occurred on board tho steamer Te'Anau while coming up the harbour this morning. Nelly Batley, a saloon passenger from Napier, in charge cf a hospital .nurse, was seen to dive through a bathroom port-hole off Ravensbourne. ' A boat was promptly lowered, but the woman was never seen, again. She was .suffering from melancholia,.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6551, 3 August 1899, Page 3
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