ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
$ DAIRY FARMER'S DEATH. (By Telegraph—Preoa Association.) Christchurch, June 3. A dairy farmer named Thomas Bevans, a single man, was found dead at Kaituna yesterday. OLD MAN. FOUND DROWNED. Asbburton, Juno 3. Tho old. man found drowned yesterday afternoon "has been identified us Edward Jones aged about 82 years. lie was a stranger to Ashburton, and wiis staying at a hoardinghouse, where lie,arrived' from Christchurch on May 23. On Sunday morning he left the boardingliouso for a walk, but did not return. 110 had a Savings Bank account of .£IOO. The police are trying to ascertain if he 'had any relatives In the Dominion. CAUGHT BY EXPRESS TRAIN. Dunedin, June 3. Maurice Flahine, a resident of Milton, was fatally injured at Wingatui this evening." lie had just left 'the racecourse siding, and had proceeded to walk towards Mosgiel on the main line, when the second express from Dunedin to Invercargill came behind him. Ho failed to take notico of tho warning whistles, and was struck by tho train, and instantaneously killed. "WIZARD" STONE HURT AT NAPIER. Napier, June 3. Whilst giving an exhibition flight ii a Bleriot monoplane at tho Napier Park Racecourse this afternoon, in a strong gusty wind, "Wizard" Stono fell with his machine, and sustained a broken collarbone. .The machine was badly damaged.
A wharf labourer named John Poock, a married mail, 27 years of age, residing at Brooklyn, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday suffering from a scalp wound, slight concussion of 'the brain, and an injury to the shoulder. The injured man was working in the hold of the s.s. Mapourika when a hook or some of the sling tackle fell on him. striking him on. the head and tho shoulder. Last night the Hospital authorities reported that lie was fairly well, and 'that his condition was not dangerous. The only other casualty case received during the day was that of a young man suffering from a broken nose, .supposed to have been sustained in a row in Taranaki Street nbout midday.
Against Accidents and Sickness insure with the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., 117 and 12l Customhouse Quay, Wellington.—AdYt,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 3
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