ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2302, 9 November 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTORING FATALITY. | - DEATH OP THE REV. E. 0; TENNENT. , (By Telephone—Maeterton Correspondent.) Sunday, "November 8. The Rev. E. G. Teunent, Presbyterian minister at Martinboroiigh, was killed while motoring to Hinakura (17 miles from Martinborougli) on Saturday afternoon last. AVlien ' driving along the main road, a few miles from Huialrura, the ear swerved into a ditch, and after proceeding a few yards overturned, pinning the rev. gentleman, to the ground. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., motoring along the same road, 6aw tho accident, and went,to thb .rescue, and relieved. Mr... Tonnent, who was seriously injured, and died a few. minutes later. Tho .body was removed to Martin-, borough, where an inquest will bo hold at 10 o'clock' this morning. - . Tho late Rov. Mr. Teunent (who was formerly minister at Port Chalmers) is survived by' a wife and a grown-up family. '-.;'' . CHILD SCALDED. (By Telephone—Master-ton Correspondent.) Sunday, November 8. , The three-year-old child of Mr. Childerston was badly scalded by the upsetting of a bucket of boiling water at his parents' residence in Masterton today. Tho child is in a critical condition. SUICIDE i AT HAMILTON. (By Telesrraph.—Press ABsociatlon.) Hamilton, November 8. George .Bettley, a butcher, aged 30, drank a quantity of poison on day, and died at the "Waikato Hospital at-mid-day to-day. Bettley, who was discharged from the Hospital last week, w'hero ho had been undergoing an operation, had been somewhat morose since. Ho left a letter stating that ho was tired of life. ? HURT BY A LOCOMOTIVE. A labourer named James O'Brien waa very severely' injured by a railway engine at Upper Hufct on Saturday morning i Our Petone correspondent states that O'Brien had gone into the engiueslied aud' was asleep there when one of the cleaners shifted-. : the engine. O'Brien's left leg was badly crushed, and when ho was removed to the Wellington Public Hospital his foot.was amputated. He is progressing satisfactorily. ■ ' ■..