ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ , ANOTHER ACCOUNT. ; :r; : : Whangarel,April : ls.' i Hansen, a resident.of : Ngiinguru, entered a bedroom occupied by, three of his. grown-up • sons: early _this morning and: fired at them, ,evidently, with in--;tettt,i-,but witbout' effe-ct:." The sons! sprang out of bed and pursued the) father, who turhed_ round, and fired' again, badly'.wounding the eldest eon in one of hia thighs. The eons had gone home : to take away; their mother, whom Hansen , is alleged to have been ill-treating. Their purpose incensed , Hansen, who revenged- himself. , in the way stated. . : : '..''•■.■ ■'. :' Hansen mil be charged at the Court to-morrow with the offence. ■ ..'.':• .. ■. -'•.„■' ;.. FALL FROM,A OAR.: v A married woman named Daisy Elizabeth Moore, 'residing at 265 Riddiford Street, was admitted to the Hospital last night suffering from a broken leg, caused by falling off a tramKiar near Court«nay Place. .; ■■.■■■■ ■•■■■••.

William Brown, a: labourer, and Leonard Parsloe, a driver of an express, were rather badly knocked about by the collapse of a stack of. timber in the Lambton,Railway Station yard yesterday morning. It was just by the merest accident that the - men were not closer in to .the ;stack,: in which case they might easily have been killed or seriously injured. l As it is, they had to be attended by Drs; Cahill and Rawson. . '': . '-.;''.. '...