ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

PASSENGER MISSING FROM STEAMER

FORMERLY MODERATOR 0% PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

£THE PKESS Special-Setvlee.l

WEI4JNGTON, September IS. > After haying been seen in his cabin on the inter-island steamer Matangi at • 1 a;m. to-day. the Rev. Isaac Jolly, ■ aged 85. was discovered later this mornin & to be missing. No trace of him had been found up to late this afternoon. Mr Jolly, who is a. former Moderator of the Presbyteriam Church of New -Zealand, spent the last five months in Nelson. Last night, accqmnanied by his wife, he was returning , to 3 "Wellington by the Matangi■ from Nelson when last seen m nil cabin at 1 a.m. he was evidently preparing discovered. His clothing was found 0 described as being a well-built . man of sft Sin. with a fresh conv plexion. It is feared that he was lost , overboard.

'■ FARMER BURNED TO

DEATH

TRAPPED IN GULLY

(pun inoeunoi. nr.nilifj

DUNEDIN, September 15. Apparently trapped in a gully whila burning off scrub on his farm at Evans Flat, Mark Fahey, aged 61, was burned to death yesterday afternoon. Fahey was a widower. • . An inquest will be opened rence to-morrow

YOUNG MAN INJURED

fall IN-MINE AT WAIUTA }

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

, REEFTON, September 15. Ernest Orr, a young ipan,. employed; by Black Water Mines, Ltd., at uta, suffered severe injuries while afcJl work yesterday, when he fell from a timber frame and struck a concrete,;*? floor. Dr. Wicken, of Ree£ton, ; was called,, and found that the - injured man had ; several fractured, ribs and internal injuries. a Orr was. removed to the Inangahua ■ Hospital, Keefton. There was no improvement. to-day . .in - his condition, ~3 which is critical. .. . . ' ' ~' v

FATAL BULLET WOUND v

(tiin uioeuTior rauamAX.! PALMERSTON N., September 15., Harold Haley, aged 23. of Shannon., J. who received a -bullet - wound in tha body when a rifle - accidentally dn- ' charged, when he tripped during •: , shooting party, died in hospital.

MINER KILLED

crass* Asaocu.no> ttususJ HAMILTON. September 15. Injuries which caused his deatn were suffered ,by Nicholas Belich, a miner,.a married- man, aged 32, why he -received an electric shock .while operating a coal-crushing machine at the Renown coal mine at- Glen -Afton last night.