ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■k STRANGE AFFAIR. ' (By Tolcßroph.—Special Correspondent! Hastings, July 5. Messrs. Halgarth and Quartley, owners of Mackenzie's back; station at Tukituki,; communicated with the Hastings police yesterday regarding a strango occurrenco which tboy had' witnessed. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon they had gone to inspect tho condition'of the Tukituki Itiver, which was_much swollen as tho result of the heavy rainfall, and, when Hearing tho bank, they observed a man go down to oho water's edge near tho ford, and set out to cross tho river on foot. The river was high and tho current so swift that, after making a few yards' headway, he was swept off his feet' and carried away. Tho observers'.hurried over to effect the, man's rescue, but tho flooded audi angry_ condition of the waters rendered assistance impossible, and tho man was not seen by-thom again. Messrs. Halgrath and have no idea as to tho man's.identity,; and'cannot speak ;as 'to his ultimate f ato. Mounted M'Murray was sent out, but no trapo of tho man could bo found. Tho soarch is being continued. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TO Kuitl, July 5. ! Mr. J. Onnsby, chairman of tho Waitomo County_ Council and well-known in To Kuiti as an interpreter, was accidentally killed on tho railway lino on' Saturday night by the Wellington-'Auckland express. The body was discovered on Sunday morning. i FALL OF EARTH. An unpleasant experience- befell , Thomaa Wainwright, a labourer, at Kaiwarra, yesterday morning. - Ho was working on tho ground adjoining bis dwelling, which is on the hillside, when an almost' perpendicular bank of earth and rock gave way and fell upon him, almost completely burying him; Neighbours and men working in the vicinity ran to tho {ipot and shovelled away tho dohns. The task was made somewhat more difficult by reason of the fact that,the fall had filled the rather narrow space between a shed and the bank, but Wainwright was soon extricated and :taken into his'house. ■ A doctor, who was sent for, .found that,, although a good deal bruised, he was not seriously injured: FELL OFF A TRAMCAR. Thomas Nagle, a wharfNlabourer, who fell off a tramcar at 10.30 on Saturday night, and was reported to have escaped with a shaking, was admitted to tbo hospital yesterday suffering from l concussion of the brain.