ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 994, 8 December 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD ON THE HILLS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Carterton,. December 7. With reference to the death of Herman Nitz, senior, who was found dead on. the hills at Te Wharau yesterday, a medical certificate has been gryen stating that it is understood death is due to heart failure. An inquest will therefore not bo necessary. Deceased was born in Germany, and served in three. wars, finally coming to New Zealand. KILLED BY AN ENGINE. ' Gore, December 7. Tho man who was killed by an engine near Waipahi has been identified' as David Grierson, 06 years of age, who left Mataura on November 22 for Dunedin, and had not since communicated with hie friends. When ho left he had between £29 and ~£3O in his'possession, and when found only one shilling. . Deceased was very, deaf, and not very active. WHARF. ACCIDENT. A wharf labourer named Robert Wat* son, residing at 120 Adelaide Road, fractured his left leg yesterday whilst engaged trucking pipes which were beinj discharged ■ from the steamer Hawke'e Bay at the Jervoi? Quay Wharf. Three pipes were being placed on n lorry when they slipped and fell on Watson's leg. Dr. Henry was called in to attend the injured man, who was removed to the hospital for treatment. CONDITION OP MRS. COOPER, Inquiry at the hospital last night elicited the information that the condition of Mrs. Emma, Cooper, of Mein Street, who is suffering from n severe abdominal injury, was slightly easier. , At an early hour this morning Peter Chalmers, a wharf labourer, who residei at Mrs. Watson's Coffee Palace in Dixon Street, was admitted to the hospital suf< fering from a severed , tendon in tho hand and a cut over the left eye.