ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1862, 23 September 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CONSTABLE TO THE RESCUE. At aibout 10.20 p.m. yesterday a man was discovered' struggling in the water near the steam trawler Energy, which was iberthed at the Queen's W'liarf. Constable Sleeth, by means of a rope, descended to a stringer and' went into tho water, getting hold of tho man and holding him up till the Harbour Board's nightwatchmencamo to his assistance. The man, who is a fireman on tho Nelw Zealand Shipping Company's Ruapehu, was' subsequently arrested on a charge of insobriety, and was taken to the Lambton Quay Police Station apparently none tho worse for his ducking.

TERRIBLE MISHAP AT A FLAXMILL. (By TaloaraDh.—Pren lgwtiiation.l Chrlstchuroh. September 22. There was admitted to the Hospital to-day a young man named Maurice Maguire, who was suffering from shook and serious injuries sustained in an accident at a flaxmill. Maguire was working in the mill when his left hand was drawn into the machinery, and his arm was torn off just below tile shoulder. Dr. Will, of Rangiora, attended to him, and sent him to After tho injuries had been attended to at the Hospital Maguire was reported as progressing as favourably as could be expected, though still sufforing from shock.

SLIP OF'THE SADDLE. Hastings, September 22. Nimrod Shaw, aged 49, a married man, a sottlor at Waimarama, succumbed to injuries received through _ a fall from a horse., Shaw was rounding up cattle, when his saddle slipped round and the horse kicked him on the head.

THROWN FROM A HORSE. • Invor.carglll, September 22. A girl named Lena Wilson, aged 13, a daughter of Mr. Joseph Wilson, farmer, of Towaowae, was thrown from a horse on Sunday morning, and was dragged about fifteen chains on a rough road. Sho was discovered stagger.ng about tho : road by a passing farmer and his wife, and was suffering from sorious injuries to tho head and face. She was convoyed to tho Riverton Hospital, and is in a precarious condition.