A sad and fatal accident occurred at Macraes on Saturday, 28th ult. It appears Mr Griffen was coming in from Nenthorn with a waggon load of wheat, and was giving a young man named Mardling a lift, when in some unaccountable way the lad fell from the top of the load, the wheels of the waggon passing over him, and death must have been instantaneous. It is surmised that the lad had gone to sleep, and the wheel jolting in a rut had overbalanced him. A brother of deceased was drowned last summer while bathing in Nenthorn Creek, and his father, who kept the ferry near Hyde for many years, also came by his death through drowning. — Mount Ida Chronicle. -Otago Witness, 16/11/1899.
Macraes Cemetery.
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