ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FRACTURED LEG. : (By Tclegraph-'-vSpeciil OorreßDondenU . Palmerston North, February ,5. ■.' -A.'fouiSyear : pld.:'boy;'named ..Theodora. .'. Milsonhas; ■ been '• admitted to i the S hos- '■ pital .here? suffering v with ; a:' fractured log sustained while, playing'withotherr;, at. Aorangi...':-::''^;:-; 1 ;;:: ;: v RUN OVER BY A DRAT. . ißr ToloKraDl).—Pross ABaoclatlnn.l New Plymouth, February 8. ' A- man 'named Thos. Burke, age l 33, ba lieved to be ,married,: his wife, being, in : ; Ballarat, :,was fatally injured at, Lepper-.; : tjn ,yesterday..,; He ;> was;working. ,in thfl il river .carting outboulders Vfor - crushing, V 1: When'the' tip-dray I .capsized. • He..fell' in;-: front of the dray, and the wheels passed':: .'over the 'lotrer-; piirt >of his;: body, was; removed' to the hospital, and: an ■ 'operation was . performed, ; but: extensive. ' internal injuries resulted , in' : .his 'death < this evening.. - -.

: • STUMBLED WHILE AIMING. ' : Hamilton, February. 3. > i ;'William Henry .Pope, a farmer at Tan- • whare, lately of Hunterville, ■ met • with a. fatal accident yesterday. He. was out - : shooting, when '»• the,,roport of . his • gun i was heard, and Pope was found lying' with , his skull blown, away. / It is surmised that "lie had taken ; aim when' hi stumbled, and the gun accidentally dis / charged. Deceased was; aged thirty-nina.;, He leaves a widow a' large . family,■: ONE OF THE JOHN LOCEEITS CREW. i v.' Yesterday. .' morning, Captain G. G. S Smith,' superintendent of Mercantile Ma-':; rino at Wellington, held a formal. inquiry into the; circumstances attending;, the death of James Thomas Ireland, who . succumbed , to- severe 'cold' on-the;: chestir while the barque John Lockett was.' voyaging from 'Liverpool to Wellington. V: Ireland, was an A.B. on the vessel. H« ; was .63 years.of' age. and came from Manchester.: The, entry - in* the. official • log « showed that ho had. been ailing for some ,: time prior to his. death.; The, depositions •>' of Messrs. H; Partridge (steward), ; Ed-'.' ward Gordon ' (sailmaker),' and William Patterson (A.8.) were taken, and the evidence will, be forwarded' to.tho : British; Hoard of Trade., • --