ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

.;/-:■, -•■', '.»" . ; ' : '.;.[-..-r':' i . ,- ' KILLED 'INSTANTANEOUSLY. ,'" ; (By Telegraph.—Prcsß" Association.) •■. ' Christchurch'December 29. . ■ About 9.30 a.m. to-day Thomas .Marson,. a farm labourer,employed; at■ Spreydbn, was: on a haystack stacking'•',hay with a. ; patent hay-lifter, when the anchor which hold the polo down gave'way. The pole immediately flow up and hit Marson on the back of the head, killing, him in- • etantaneously. At the inquest,,the evidence of William. Woods, who was'working with Marson' (who was a' married man), showed' 1 : that the anchor' had be-' ' comq loosened by the recent rain, and the pole had sprung, upwards: with .great force. A verdiet was returned that deceased was killed through 'being struck i on the head with a hay-lifter. FOUND DKOWNED. '■;'./ a; .Christchurch, December 29; ■ At an inquest- touching the death of Chas. Mussen, GO years of,age, an old- ' age'pensioner who.was found drowned in' the river, at Avonside yesterday ' morn- ■■ ing, William.'Sincock stated that he saw . deceased about 10.30 o'clock, on tho even, ing before the": body : was found apparently ' on his homeward way. He appeared to : bo'under the influence-of'liquor." The j coroner returned a verdict of. found . drowned. , ; ! ... • \ '■' EFFECT OF ENGINE'S WHISTLE. ~..■ i ■•■'.'■ Oamaru, Decembor 29. j As the up train from • Palmerston South was arriving at Mahono, the ' .vhistlo startled a team of horses attached < io a dray driven by ono Tinilick. The ' alter slipped, ■. and : tho ■••.'. wheels passed )ver both legs, which, it is feared,:aro , joth broken. : CAUGHT IN BELTING. ' 1 : ; i: Christchurch, December 29. - 1 Jas. Steel, employed in a quarry at * Hornby, was.caught in the. bolting. ot : iomo stone-crushing machinery, .and was n-hirled round, by: the shafting. When 'io was picked up, it was found that'he , !md. sustained-severs injuries, several of liis ribs being broken. He was conveyed o tho hospital as soon as possible, but lied shortly .after, admission.' ■■■ '. DKOWNED IN A POND. j Hawera,[December 29. i Herbert John Pullonger, a ' labourer} lgcd about 30 years and a single man, vas drowned in a pond sixteen inches ] loop at Normanby ■ this .morning. Do- f :eascd is supposed to have fallen into ;lio water while suffering from an opilen- , :ic fit,■■to which" he was subject. . " Instructions! have .'boon--'-received iiv ilessrs. Dalgety and-Company from If/ i r. 11. Taylor to sell by public auction, at t lion-. Levin yards, on February .4 ■wi q fonalmu property, which consists ol mn , icrcil of freehold land, situated thrco mlc.r from the; -railway.'station. About I CM.acres are «r ifrasE, tho balance boinir n aod mhed:butih, ,