ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1183, 19 July 1911, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

' "OVER TERRIBLE ROADS." (By Tcleerapli—Press Association.) Te Kuiti, July 18. Sid. Devereanx, a bushman, aged 28 wa.s pig shooting on Sunday at Puketiti! and when lifting his gun from the ground by (he barrel the gun went off, discharging tho contents into his right lung, and seriously injuring him. Bearer parties convoyed him from four o'clock on Sunday until 7 a.m. on -Monday, and then reaching a road a gig was used to carry him to Te Kuiti over terrible roads. The party readied hero at 5 p.m. on Monday, and the wounded mail was taken thou to tho Waikato Hospital, where he is lying in a very low state.

CYCLIST-SIDE-SLIP ON FROST. Christchurch, July 18. John Richard Soper, plasterer, aged* 'it, was killed this morning while cycling to town from his home in St. Albans. The road was slippery with ; frost, and in turning a corner Sopor's machine sideslipped. His head struck the ground violently, the slaill being fractured. At the corner where the fatality occurred the road is banked up. to take the curve of the tram lines, and Sopor was cycling on the outside slopo of the road. FOUND DEAD. Dunodln, July is. The body of a man named Jackson, apparently between forty and lifly years of age, was found Inst night in a liouse in King Street, which lie rented. It is believed deceased was employed on one of .the Peninsula dairy farms.