ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BATHING FATALITY. '7- i" ■ (By .Teleeraph.'—Spccial CorrreMHfiontV ! Wanganui, December 28. Only one serious accident , has been ra > corded during the holidays,' this'being a sad bathing fatality , near Upokorigaro, seven miles up the river.. . A young-fel-low named . Arthur Littlejohn, aged, about• twenty, a son of Mrs. Hanford, ngaiiui, was bathing with friends.'about noon, when he suddenly sank, .-and .waa , not seen again.. Despite a systematia ' search since,'the'body, has not'yet been recovered. . . , . . .•'! '• , ' ;. : i . BOARDING A MOVING TRAIN. ■; .MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. CBy TeX'L'rapn.—F rc:■ s Association.! ' PalmDrstori;' December 28. Samuel M'Leod was seriously; injured .this evenrig'at the railway station when attempting to board a. train when! in mo-' tion. ' He fell between a carriage and. the platform, and sustained a compound ' fracture of the right'leg.'.a crushed chest, ■ and ' three broken ribs. His injuries , were attended to at the Palmerston Hospital. ; . . THE TEAGEDY AT.NAUMAL .• HOW.. : ;THE .FATAL FIB E/BEGAN. ■ Dargaville,. December 28.' : Anrinquest-on the. bodies of Mr. ■ anj Mrs. J.' L. Davies,.who were 'barned to death, at Nauhiai, showed that Mr.' Davies and two companions had ..been drinking oh Monday night, and that when he retired lie was intoxicated. " It is surmised that a lamp' must have been; left" burn.ing'and capsized, igniting the bedclothes. The verdict was that, deceased were 1 burn> ed-to death,.'but that there was no' evi. . dence to 'show how the fire originated,.' .' SUICIDE BYSHOOTING.: , - i Auckland, December 28." , The : police received, information last ' night that' a labourer named. iJosepb Brown committed suicide at Tokirimu OB Monday .by shooting hjmself.Y.. •..•. . . FARM LABOURER'S DEATH. •• • . • ; Te Kuiti,: December 28. Joseph Lied, aged 32, a. farm labourer, employed at Tokirim'a, Ohura,.was found 'in' a dying condition outside ■ his whare on Monday, night, with a discharged pea;:: rifle lying beside him. There, was. a small wound, over" • the heart, .and death. had . occurred within a short, period. •:

CHILD DROWNED IN A .DAM. ' ' ■ Hawera, December 28; The seventeen-months' old ' child' 'of. W. T. Wells, settler, Manaia, was missed for a.few mintues, ; arid' was. found drowned in a dam". ' At the inquest ,a Terdict of accidentally drowned' was returned, the circumstances; showing that no; .blame -way attachable': to .anyone. - . : '.THE CYCLIST AND, THE TRAIN; V" '. Ashburton, December 2S. ' ; The.injuries, to George eol« lided with a'train yesterday; ivere more serious than at first• thought, andlie. in; the -hospital at 10 ; o'clock last night. Deceased, ;who .was a member'of-the firjn of James Smith and' Sons, sawmillers and building contractors, was '29 years of age, and leaves a widow and one.child.' ... , / FATAL FALL-DOWN' A- CHUTE. -' \ ■ . Ashburton, December'2B." The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Walter Edward Jones,..who was killed through falling . down,,a.;chute; at' the." Fairfield Freezing Works on .Friday last,' was also held. " The evidence of .the foreman of-works and several.'Workmen was. taken, and the inquiry .'further adjourned to January 13, when medical eviv dencc .will'be taken.:: ~ " WHARF LABOURER INJTJTtED. " A married mail named Sidney .■ "Artiiuf Fletcher, 32 yfars of age, residing, .at. 48Waterloo Avenue, was'admitted to tho hospital yesterday, suffering', from' a fractured leg. It appears that while Fletcher was engaged loading meat on the Tainui, at the Glasgow Wharf, 'a carcass slipped' and fell on'his leg, inflicting the injury.