Accidents and Offences

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 114, 6 March 1886, Page 2

Accidents and Offences

(PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATIOX.) Nelson, March 3. Three lads, two of them being brothers, named Snodgrass, went bathing in the Maitai Eiver this afternoon, when the two elder boys, after bathing, ran about, leaving the other in the water. Oa returning they missed him, and then discovered him under the water. They then called for assistance, and some men got the body out, but he was dead. The deceased, George Snodgrass, was a bright boy of twelve, who won a provincial scholarship at Christmas, and since has been at the college as day boy. T Dunbdin, March 4. Alfred Wool, a chemist of Green. Island, was found dead in his bed this morning. Deceased is supposed to be the victim qf an overdose of morphia taken to procure sleep while suffering from neuralgia. He is a married man with a family, A sub-contractor on the Otago Central was killed yesterday by an »r plosion of a charge which missed fire.* His name was Jones Russell, and h* has a wife in Dunedin. A navvy named J< hu McGrath was hurt about the face and oyes at the same time. March 5. - .? A young man named Alleusen, son of a commission agent, had both thumbs and two fingers of the left hand blown off while handling dynamite caps, not knowing what they were. A young man named Wilson, agtd 19, was killed near Xaitanga, by being -h own from his horse, which took fright by a sister of the deceased handling him a tin billy. Albert Woollett, chemist at Green Island, died this morning from an overdose of Morphia. Acckla^d, March 5. James Bracowell, a railway engine-^ driver, died in the hospital from in ißj juries received while entering Tuakau station with a train. On looking put he struck his head against a water tank. He leaves a widow and six children. An inquest will be held.