ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2191, 2 July 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD

0. JohliSiton, ol Xgaio, an f-mploMe . Messrs. il'A.rthiir stud Heljikiiii of Knlfrarra, fell off sortie ■sealfoidivig at tlio NgftbauraJiga "eat tTorks yestfcrday, niul 'sustained a slight eoiiftitSs.ton of tho brain. Johnston, wilo is a inarried man, was reirovod tfl the Wellington llospitaf, whare 1-io ts :progresstitg fr.vour-a-bly. ili,<: injury is Hot considered serious. MAORI WOMAN KILLED. (Bj T^teeraslk— • Association,; Ohakune, July ]~ A fatal accident occurml yes'tcrday a-fteriifio-n to a Maori woman, It was caused by a flying pieee- of \\ood irom bfetsi.iig oil the Oiia-kuncdineti-hi -briiateh of railway eoiist-rHCtion. BEATS AT A Stratford, July 1, George- Colliil.gwood, ..an elderly nuut, and as olr-1 levideiit, while- presiding at a Salvation Ar;>i.v "rocial'' ill Stratford last night, suddenly oNpiied. His wife Was present. FALL. I) 0W N 1 i ATI: I{W A V Aucltlanrt JuK 1 i Austin,_ an eiiginrnr oil the steamer Makarini, fell dmvii a .hatch, a distance of thirty feet,, a.jid is mow' m hospital, uttconscioOß, with ft badly fr-ac-iOTftd rrn; and injuries to- the i'aee. and. it feared, moiiat ifitenral injurios, Austin was found this nn«rjiin.:~ at t-lie bfltitoHi of the- Iseid by a watersife unloading cargo. How tho accident occur* red k* a mystery. OLD , MAN HANGS HIMSKLr. Chrlstcburcii, duly 1. A single man, named Roljert Ilale, ■agejl ® years/ catiimitted suic-ide. this li.orning by hanging. For tlie last fourt«oij wicks ho had been boarding m Aotom Street, off Montreal Ktreef: Ho was last sflen. at 6 o'clock this morning, Slid shortly after midday Jiis body was »04:itjd banging from « hook near tlio window of his bedroom., -at the back of tl.e house.. Tho man left n note aniimtneing his inte.iiiiou. of doiiig away v.'ith hiniselL and directions that his property-sliould be left to his sister, DEATH fX A -BOILING MUD POOL. Rolorua. Jr.iy 1. . A.u old Maori nafied Hate Kateratotoa died in. the I!oior:;a Hospital to-day i'roni scakis received tkroHiJt falling into a hoi mtui pool at Wlvaka-rowarcwa on Sunday last. •