ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3700, 25 May 1883, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.

"Wellington, This day. A young man named J times Hagaii is believed to have been lost in the bush near the Uppper Hutt, "While pigeon shooting-last Tuesday he wandered away from a companion,' and lias not since been heard of. .Dunkdin, This day. A man, supposed to be Mr Bain of Wnitnki, fell off the north express in the South Otepopo tunnel on "Wednesday. The train was .stopped and the man picked up in an unconscious state, having received severe injuries to his head. He was taken on to r.'ilmorjitoii, where lie was left in a dying state. Greymouth, This day. An accident occurred onboard the steamer Graf ton on "Wednesday by which the second mate received injuries, the exact nature of which is not yet known. Several of the hands wore being hauled out of the hold on a rope, and as the first man was being hauled on deck the rope gave a hitch and the other three men fell into the hold, two of them coming on top of the mate. "Bluff, This day. Early on Wednesday signals were made from Dog Island lighthouse that medical assistance was required, as the principal litrhtkeepur was dying. The pilot crewtook Dr. Chass, Sergt. Mcikle, and a Customs officer across, and found the lightkeeper Clark dead. It appears that James Clark, the principal lightkeeper, went up the tower at I a.m. that day to relieve "W. Collie. Collie then went home. Mrs Clark went out at 7.30 and noticed the light still burning, although it was daylight. Not seeing her husband she went up the tower, but could not find him. On coming down she called Collie, and he, accompaned by Frost and assistant-keeper Harper, searched outside the tower without success, but on opening the door inside the tower at the basement they discovered the body of Clark, quite dead, "in the recess where the lamp weights are suspended. The last entry on of the slate in the tower shows 0.20, and it is supposed that the deceased had overbalanced himself while adjusting the lamp weights and had fallen down the centre of the tower, about 70ft.