ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 847, 20 June 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ FOUND IN THE HARBOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! Auckland, Jnno 18, The body found in the harbour has been identified as that of R. Burra, bookseller, of Thames. A letter in • a pocket stated that a doctor bad notified tho writer that he was liable to death from heart failure in caso of accident. Tho letter" supplied tho writer's name and address. CAUGHT IN A SHAFT. Advico received by Inspector Ellison states that an employee at Quinlan's sawmill, Nireaha, Arthur Nichol, was caught in a shaft and carried round a number of times before the engine could be stopped. His right arm was badly broken above the elbow. Nichol was working near tho shaft when the tail of his jersey was caught and drew him into it. Dunedin, June 19." Findlay Malcolm, a seaman on the Harbour "Board's dredge, was killed last night. In some manner ho became entangled in a spindle of the windless and was carried round in tTie machinery. The engine was stopped and tho machinery reversed. The man was dead when "extricated. It is surmised that some string round his leg was caught in the shaft. He was a married man with five children, and was 35 years of ago. He resided at Port Chalmers. FOUND DEAD. A man named Robert Nicol, a resident of Porirua, was found dead in a stable belonging to the Porirua Hotel by Mr. John Lawrie just before seven o'clock or. Saturday morning. There is reason for thinking that the causo of death was hrart disease, but an inquest will bo held at 4.30 p.m. to-day. Gordon Stanley, a. six-year-old boy, living in Stanley Street, Bcrhamporo, was taken to the hospital on Saturday suffering from severe burns about the face and hands, tho result of an accident met with while he was wanning himself before tho fire.. He was progressing well yesterday. John M'Arthur, an unmarried mm employed on the new post office building, foil' twWy feot from a b-caft'old on Saturday, and was taken to the hovpitai with a. dislocated shoulder. Frank Payne, a single man, a. labourer, living in Sydney StTcot, Petono, slipped on tho kerbing at Petone on Saturday, and broke his ankle. Ho was taken to tho Wellington Hospital,