ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

During tlie voyage' of:.:the- /Shaw r f3ayin steamer lonic, which arrived from London yoste.rday, a .' third-class, passongor, 'named Byro,. booked for Qisborne, severely injured hi? leg. He was "attended to by the ship's surgeon, and was able .to leavo the . vessel on arrival -at. Wellington: ' On Tuesday evening, a passpnger named. C. Wren, on board the s.s. 'Mhrairia, met with an accident which. made ,it necessary .for him to .be conveyed td .'.the hospital when ; the vessel arrived yesterday. Inquiries made at the hospital' elicited the 'fact- that Wren was 'siiffering : from concussion of ; the hrain/ There wfti) iio improvement in his condition last night. Vcsterday afternoon,: Mr. Jamos Asli-' croft, District Coroner, held an inquiry at -tlie Lower Hntt touching the death of Martin IC. Coriolly, a boy of ten years, v/ho had boon drovrncd in. the Hutt River .the previous day whilst bathing. Formal evidence of the accident having been,given, a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. At the . instanco of the Coroner a rider, r was added, om bodying tho need of prccautiqns being takori for the safety of children when bathing. ; ■ . An elderly married woman named Margaret Sponce, aged 70 '(no address given), was admitted to the-Hospital at: a .quarter past nine las tnight, sufroring from a dinlocated colhir-bono. It appears that the injury resulted from a fall on tho' pavomont. The patient has two sons omployod as conductors.on the. Corporation tramways.' (BT TEIiOBAPH— SrHCIAJ,: COBBISSPONDENT.), Marton, December 4. Tho Ihd'Morrison, who .mot with an acci-derit-at Alartbn oil Monday, through'tile explosion of a brazing lamp, died in tho Wanganui hospital yesterday. .He was..seventeen years of ago, and was tho son of. Ml 1 . Andrew Morrison, of Porewa, Marton. • (BY TBLEQTIArn—rRHSI ASSOCIATION.) Invercarglll, December 4. The police h»vo boen'advised: that Thomas James Reynolds died- at the Riverton hospital. ,to-day from , the offects of. a- wound on the head, received while working' 'at Wrey.'s Bush on Tuesday. .Reynolds was binding a loop in the wire rope of tho haul,ihg.i engine, when the engine surged. The ropo tightened, and caused the iron bar to fly round and hit Reynolds on the templo.