ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Death of. a Notisd " Prospeotor.
(Per United Press Association.) '•'• DUNEDINy'M^ lQ.r Robert Blair Denni&ton', ■ nrmrng" engineer, an old resident, died' here yesterday. He canie to Otagb in 1862, and' went to the West ' Coast. ' ' On ' the ' discovery of gold there he joined 'ttie Gs>veTmmeirfc; geologieaj survey, party 1" The town of Dennietori ig namei after 'him', as the prpspector of' the field! . He was the discoverer of the fuller goldfields. He Resigned from the Government service to .take the jn.anagement/of the Westporfc Coa^£son#^yj, when the property was opened u|^V|ttW^^«iß.; super visipn. Jgte was afterwards in-business for himsolf. He Xflavps. a widow arid " one son and- three dauglitßr,s. by; the first- mariiage:
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11253, 11 May 1904, Page 6
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114ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11253, 11 May 1904, Page 6
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