ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(By foloSMSh.—ftrefc 4j3ooiatloii,3 .FLYING WOOD CHIP. Dsrgavllle, March 17. lato this afternoon Mr, Haiold Anderson, proprietor of a. Dargavittc sS.tv» mill, niot with a nasty accident. Whilst dogging akg preparatory t<? hauling, tho skw-wcdge slipped, and a chip m thf lotij entered the right eye. Medtsal assistance scmii arrived* aod the doetor ordered the patient's removal to : tile Auckland Hospital immediately, It ts Soared fha-t ho will lose tho right, eye. He was taken in a launch to Helensville this evening, aiicl will he taken thence straight to tte hospital. MAORI CHILD DROWNED. Cisborne, March 17, .'A Maori girl, aged fif : a years, wandered -away from.her parents, who aro attending the Land Court at To Araroa. ■A search was made during all the afternoon and night, and tho body was found, in the river this ittoruing, FOUND DYING ON THE ROAD. Dqfieciln, March 17. Advice was received.from Palmersfeon to-night that James Ross, a married man with four or five children, wasfound dying en tfey road at Green Valley today. Ho was taljeii to Dm&aei, but died before a' -doctor amved. Deceased was a shepherd* and: liad been driving a. mob of slvedp. LIWLE BOY DROWNED. Invercargiit, March 17, !A! fivo-ycarKild hoy named —■ Oratt, ford was drowned, in a pool near tlie Bluff to-daTT, Tho hoy and life companion had heen cray-fishuig, when tlx? little fellow somehow Ml mi and was drowiiftd Ijcforo help could: be obtained.