ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 480, 13 April 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• $ A TRYING'TIME IN A LAUNCH. (BY TKLEBEAI'II—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) • . Auckland, April 12. On Saturday night, during a trip of n motor launch from Kawati to Coroninndel with a party of four, the benzine ignited, and two men, named Taylor and Shaw, were enveloped in flames. Taylor jumped overboard and Shaw was thrown overboard; both were soon picked up. Shaw was seriously burned about the'hands and arms, and Taylor was slightly injured. The engine broke down, ami the. party drifted about all night. Next morning the engine, was got going, but when off Tamaki Heads it broke down 'again. A fairly heavy wind was blowing, and the launch was washed ashore. The party walked to Onchunga, where the injured men were attended to by Dr. Tressider. THROWN FROM A TRAP. (BY TBLEGRAru—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 12. Sir. Charles Howells, auctioneer !'or Messrs, Wright, Stephonson and Co. at luvereargill, was thrown from a trap at Edie's Hill, on Moa Flat, Tapainii Road, owing to tlu» brake not acting. He sustained fatal injuries. MOTOR-CAR MISHAP'' (DV TELEGUAI'II—I-lIESS itSSOCtATrOX.I Napier, April 12. While a party were returning from Napiei to Wanganui in a motor-car on Sunday they met with a mishap near l\ikipaki. The car wns overturned, and the occupants were thrown out. Mr. T. Boswell Williams hai his leg broken, but the others escaped ser ious injury. A FATAL FALL. (BY TEI-EGItArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 12. At the inquest on the body of William Harkin, who died on Saturday as a result oi injuries sustained through falling over. a cliff, deceased's wife stated that ho had beer in constant work lately. He was so strange in his manner and seemed so despondent oi lal.e that she. was afraid of him. He uscc. to suffer from insomnia at times, hut liaci not been troubled in that way for over a month. He often used to say he felt likr doing away with himself when he tnqk sue)] turns. She had not rpiarrolled. with him, but on account of his strange manlier a fow angr.\ words had passed between them. His fathe'i had asked him to shift, because they' were all becoming frightened of him. Thc.coronpi returned the following verdict:—"That doatli was caused by falling over a cliff, but that thero was not sufficient "evidence to eliow whether it was accidental or otherwise." A shooting accident happened at I'orirua yestwilny. . It appears thai two lads named Fred Styles, son of Mr. Styles, bootmaker, Molesworth Street, and — Warno, son of Mr. 'IVarup, butcher, of the. snmr> street, went out from town on a shooting expedition. Owing to Warno filling, his gun' went off. some of the pellets (striking Styles in tins legs behind tho knee Styles wns brought, in to tho hospital, where it is believed his injuries are not of a serious nature.

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