ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MINER KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Reef ton, December 15. Geo. Edgar, a single man, employed as a trucker at the Blackwater mines, fell 60ft. down a shaft to-day, and was killed. WOMAN TAKES POISON. Reelton, December 15. A single woman, named Teresa Annie Harper, committed suicide at Black's Point by taking poison. STATION MANAGER'S DEATH. Masterton, December IS. A mail named William Wilscm, manager of Mr. Erl Williams's Mamaku Station, died in hospital to-day from injuries sustained through a kick from a. bullock. 1 . FATAL FALL FROM A BICYCLE. Auckland, December 15. A boy named James Lunny, of Birkenhead, died to-day from injuries received through being thrown from a bicycje, the handle bar of which struck him and inflicted internal injuries.

Shortly after eight o'clock yesterday morning there was a stirring scene at the gates of Trentham Camp, when the Twenty-first Infantry Reinforcements completed tlieir three days' march from Featherston. to Trentham. The draft was in charge of Lieutenant-Col-onel C. R. Macdonald, • Chief Infantry Instructor, and was headed by the Trentham Camp Band, which had marched out to meet the troops on the road. The Twenty-firsts marched with dash and swing that has rarely been equalled' by. drafts marching in, and the men looked exceedingly fit. As they entered camp before parade hours there was a good muster of men of the Twentieths to cheer, their entry after a march which the •. Twentieth's themselves did so well a month ago. Save for a few showers early on Friday morning, the' Twenty-firsts had good weather throughout, ; and their work en route was carried out under favourable conditions. On Monday the troops will continue their advanced training at Trentham, which will include advanced musketry and trench warfare training.