ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 193, 10 May 1919, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

« A MAORI KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association Rotorua, Mny 0. ■'.A'Maori named Jlotomanu was carting firewood in tlio bush near the AVi\ikato, off tlio Mokai-Putaruru railway, on Thursday, when the load • upsot and crushed liim to death. A returned soldier named Nicholson attempted to aliplit from a moving car in. Manners Street last evening and fell, .sustaining a painful injury to his nose. He was taken to a tobacconist's shop near by, where ho was seen by a doctor, who ordered his removal to the Hospital, RETURNED SOLDIER'S SUICIDE. ;;;< Tctetcraph.- I'rww Association. Christchurch, May 9. . A man named Thomas Wilson was ftiund dead this morning hanging to a beam at his residence. Wilson was a returned soldier, and suffered from nervous 'trouble. KILLED BY FALL OF EARTH. liy Telegraph—Press Association. Dunodin, May 9. A man named Alfred Harking was admitted to the Dunetlin Hospital in July last year suftoriue from injuries said to bo caused through a fall of coal in the Kaitangala mine, lie died at tlio institution last evening. Deceased was a married man with five children. Ho was aged 37. RETURNED SOLDIER KILLED. By Telegraph-Press Association Christchurch. May 9. Aloxander D Mntheson, a returned •soldier, aged 31, single, residing with his undo at Belfast, was thrown from a horso this cvoning and killed, hip neck being broken.,