ACCIDENTS; AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS; AND FATALITIES.

|. - KILLED AT -A; CROSSING. . I (By Telccranh.—Prees Association.) Waipawa, March 15. Henry Burkin, a single man, was killed at the railway crossing last night by'the express train. • PUNT FATALITY. '■• Greymouth, March 15: Charles Frederick Cambridge, aged 32, a married-man, and a farmer by occupation, was drowned yesterday at midday through the capsizing of a boat' used as a punt with a wire rope. TEs broke, causing the accident. Cambridge's father resides at Belfast, near Christchurch.-An inquest is being held to-day. . HAND CAUGHT IN MACHINE. A young _man. named Arthur. Thomson, residing in 'Adelaide Road, met' with a painful accident Whilst employed working one of the machines at the Dominion Slioo Factory yesterday morning. Thomson got his right hand caught in' the machine, the knife'of which cut off three of the fingers; The injuries were attended to at the hospital. ' . . . .'EPILEPTIC FIT. .■ A-man named. Frank Doyle was overcome by an epileptic fitwhilst .standing in .an auction'room yesterday. He was ■attended by a doctor, but as he showed no signs .of recovering after -an hour's medical attention he. was, removed to the hospital. An improvement in his condition was reported last night..' .