ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
. ■ : — ♦ ■ ' [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 18. George Baltoe, storekeeper, of Bombay, was driving across a. level crossing at Runciman on Saturday evening, when a goods train arriving from Auckland collided with his trap and tnrew Balme out. He fell on his head and was killed instantly. ' The trap was smashed and the horse fatally injured: Balme was the only occupant of the vehicle and was driving to the station to meet his wife. > A man named Robert Frost was found drowned in a lagoon near Taupiri. Most of his clothes were found on the bank. The body of James Walter Bird, a laundryman at Onehunga, who has been missing for 'about a wpek, was found in the harbour yesterday.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19091018.2.53
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 9675, 18 October 1909, Page 3
Word Count
122ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Star (Christchurch), Issue 9675, 18 October 1909, Page 3
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in