ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1655, 23 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

'. DROWNING AT MERCER:, (By, Telegraph.—Press. Association.) ; ■ i ■ '.': Auckland, January 22.' ;, A 'boy named Wilfred Thomas Vinson, aged W, ; was drowned m tho Wnik&to River at Mercer. ■ ".. —— ' VjJ'OOU'VVO ■■OLD MAN'S DEATH. , '•'•..' Auckland, January 22; : Charles Kennedy, aged 70, was found dead at Tnheke, near Eawene.,.; , ... i .';,[ BURNED TO DEATH. "',•'.; :•. ' Gisbdrne, January 22. Mr. M'lntyrtf, a sheepfariner at Mororo, went out to bum bush yesterday, and not returning his people became alarmed.- A search party went out and found him burned to 'death.. ■-~.' -\\ , .DROWNED IN' A BUCKET. ■' Now Plymouth, January' 22. An elderly woman named M'Millari, widow,of Robert , M'Millan, living at Omata' with hor daughter (Mrs. Bovctt); was found drowned early this morning, with her head in a bucket of water. ; „. THROWN BY AHORSE. 1 ,',■', ■-' ~ Chrlstchurcltj January 2a. ' Whilst, out riding, Florence' ,Welsh, aged 26,' was thrown, by a horse and received .injuries from which she died two hours.afterwards.'. r r v ■'". , . ■■■ 'BURNT. '; i: >' At the r gathering given in honour of tho South Melbourne cricketers.last evening, Mr. J. Zachariah. while engaged in taking a.flashlight.photograph of tho assemblage,- sustained, bums through tho premature ignition of the,chemical substarioonecessary for tho "flash"; The injurios sustained,-however, were not serious,/ The strenuous, lift of to-day renders Accident and Sickness Insurance no longer a luxury, but a; necessity. , The Ocean' new "Leader Policy'' covers all accidents and 50' diseases. ■' Prospectus sent on receipt of application.—Advt. : \ :