ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD. (By Tcleerapb.—Press A^eociation.) Auckland, April 2. A telegram was received 10-duy from Constable Beazle.v at Waihnrara slating that a mail named Herbert Perks' was found dead on the gumfiolds. A revolver containing an cuiptv cartridge was lying beside the body and suicide is suspected. KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. Invcrcarflill, April 2. .Idines Hewitt, aged forty-five years,, a married man, employed in the Nightcaps mine, was killed instantaneously today. He hud fired a charge, but as it diii not. go off he returned, when an explosion occurred, causing fatal chest injuries. Deceased was a recent arrival from Home.. SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, April 2. Mr. John Hansen, 63 years of age, living in Regent Street, South Dunedin, dropped dead in tho street at Green Island this afternoon. He was a single man, and a nativo of C'hristiania. THE TALISMAN MINE FATALITY. Waihi, April 2. During the Coroner's inquiry into the circumstances attending tho deaths of William Hyde and Thomas M'Bride, who were killed in the Talisman mine shaft at Karangahake on March 28,. tho evidence of tlio' mine manager showed that tho mining inspector had prohibited in writing any person to rido on the skip which travelled up and down on rails in the underlying shaft. Tho manager had posted in various parts of the mfno notices, prohibiting persons using the skip, but'as it had been customary, certain employees, including the manager, shift bosses, fitter, and head carpenter travelled in the skip with permission of the mine manager. It was pointed out by counsel appearing for tho relatives if deceased that, tho manager had not carried out the instruction of the mining inspector. He further pointed out that these instructions had been given only as recently as Felmiary last. CYCLIST SERIOUSLY .INJURED. . Gisborne, April 2. A man named Alt'. ICewle.v, while riding a motor-cycle in town to-day, capio into violent' collision with 1 a trap, one of tho shafts , of which pierced his He was taken to the hospital in a serious condition. He is a native of tho Isle of Man, and has no relatives in New Zealand. ' ! BODY CAST UP. BY FLOODS: Invercargill, April 2. The body of a man was found to-day on Mataura Island, where it had been cast up by floods. The throat had been gashed, probably with a razor, aild the doctor states this is the cause'of death. The body has not yet been identified. : A VISITOR BREAKS HIS LEG. Alexander Stitt, proprietor of .the Grand Hotel, Westport, and a visitor to Wellington, sustained a broken leg in dismounting from a tram-car. The car had just reached the old Post Office, .when Mr. S.titt, thinking it had quite stopped, jumped off. In doing, so he fell heavily to the ground, and sustained a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee, and was considerably bruised about, the face. The injured man was removed to tlio Tolls Office, Queen's Wharf, where first-aid was rendered by' Mr. J. Peters, a Harbour Board official., Dr. Henry was telephoned for, and upon liis arrival he ordered tho injured man to be removed to the hospital. "Remember you may meet with an' accident any day. Remember- the Occin Accident Corporation's Leader Policy covers nil accidents and 50 diseases.- Remember to take out a Policy To-day.—Advt.