ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LAD KILLED AT TOKOMARU BAY ( (By Tekmrnli.—Press Association,) Clsborne, January 21. Ernest Roy Abbot, aged ninatee!. years, died at Tokomaru Bay from in* juries sustained through a bor6e rolling on him. MAN LOST IN THE BUSH. Wanganul, January 21. Word has been received that a mail has been missing for three days in the bush district, Upper Ahuahu. Search so far has proved unsuccessful. There are no . details to hand. MINISTER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. . Chrtotohuroh, January 21. , Rev. A. Mitchellj Methodist minister at Lyttelton, who was camping at Ashley Gorge, with his family, was accidentally Shot in the left leg lastevening owing to a revolver which hia son was cleaning exploding.- ■ CORPORATION EMPLOYEE INJURED, Inveroarglll, January 21. A corporation employee named Neil Neilson, married, 60 years of age, was admitted to _ tho Southland Hospital', to-day suffering from a scalp wound. The _ sufferer is still unconscious, and details are unavailable, but it w believed that he has been knocked down by a motor-car. . COMMERCIAL 'TRAVELLER ■ DROWNED. Clsborna, January 21. Herbert Mac Lean, commercial travel* lor for J. Griffin and Co., of Nelson, was drowned while surf bathing on the Wai-, kanae Beaoh this afternoon. The beach fete was jn' progress, and hundreds of people were about at the time. Efforts at rescue were -unavailing, as MacLean'was not seen after he first sank. The/body has not yet been ' recovered. ■.• Another commercial/traveller, named-' Gilchrist, who. was bathing with Mac- / Lean, had a very narrow' being rescued at the last gasp. A iiasty surf was running a 6 the result of a marine ■disturbance; and several other parties: were in trouble, notably the life-saving team while giving a demonstration with their reel.. Nelson. January 21. T Mr. H. M'Lean, North Island traveller forfGriffen and Sons,- biscuit and confectionery manufacturers, who wa3 drowned at Gisbome to-day, was a native of Melbourne, where his relatives, except for two brothers in New Zealand, reside. He was 29 years of age, and had been in .the firm's employ for twelvo months. - ' Mr. M'Lean was a single man, but was shortly to have ; been married.