ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Per Press Association. WAIPAWA, .September 2. S. AVhiiite, a young man, residing at Kaikora. aacddenitlally shot hiimself in the siide yesterday. Death was instantaneous.
BLENHEIM, September 2
Thomas Birkett, a settler in the AVai. rau Valley, Avas drmyned while 'attempt, ing to cross 'the Wairau River at North Bank. His horse and dray welre found in the ford ? and tttie body a little lower dlofwn the river.
WHANGAREI, September 2. R. Hutchings, the three-year-old son of the licensee of Hikui^angi Hotel, was accidentally drowned in the Hikurangi River.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12271, 3 September 1904, Page 5
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