ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 549, 2 July 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

IN A SAWMILL. ; ; (By Tologr&Dh.-Prces Association.) ' Talhape, Jnly L. Stephen Orr, while working al.Sniith and DonaH's mill, Mataroa, yesterday afterMon, , had a hand out off at tho wrist. He was scat , to tho hospital this morning, and ifl keeping up well. A STOCK DROVER'S DEATH. Dannovlrko, July 1. ' Tho body of a stock drover named Thomas Lambert, late of Porangahau, was found at noon to-day in an outhouse with too throat cut. Evidently the man had been dead several days. ' \ v A LITTLE GIRL DROWNED. v '' Advice has been received by Inspector • Ellison, from Blenheim, to the effect that a littlo child, Ruby Constance Bright, aged three and a-half years, was drowned in tho Awatero River yesterday morning. Mr- John Bright, of Wald's Hill, with his wifo and throo ■children, was crossing tho river in a trip bound for Blenheim, wlion tho trap capsiwxl, and tho youuecet child (Ruby) was drowned. The body had not bteon recovered at tho time of telegraphing. DEATH , OF A MAORI CHIEF. Our Gioytown correspondent states that Hoani Rangitokaiwaho, gcneially known as Jolui Maniliera, hoad chief at Papawai, i v dropi)cd dead at tho pa on AVcdnoaday afternoon. Apoplexy is said , to havo been Uh> cause of tho doatli. A largo tangi Will bo held at Pajpawai. ,'