ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1661, 30 January 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THREE DEATHS BY DROWNING. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night. A little girl named Dixon, daughter of a O.ahuhu settler, was drowned by falling iQto a tub of water.

Cbristoburoh, last night. Nicholas Duncan was killed by a fall of earth at Glonmore brickworks to-day. Ho was aingle, and 28 years old.

Nelson, last nigh:

A drowning fatality occurred at Upper Matakiki on Friday evening. Two youDg men named Arthur Thornton and Joshua Scholefield lost their lives. They had followed the funeral of the lato Mr William White as far as O’itourke’a hotel, The river was quifca low at crossing, but when returning in the evening it had swollen gna'ly. Both wero at'emptieg to cross tho riyer on one horsr, It is thought that in the semi darkness they did not notice the stream had rieen. Bo'.h were I good swimmer.'. Scholefield’s body was found near Mr Fred Lester’s, about ten miles from the scene of the accident, and Thornton’s to ly by Mr Morel when returning from the Bellevue dredge, about three miles from Mmcbiem. Tborr.ton and Scholefield were ba f-brothers, single, and aged about 26 and 27 years. Thornton was generally known as Arthur Scholefi Id.

AshburtOD, last night,

Mr Frank McCafferty, farmer at Lyndburst, died to-day as the result of injuries received on Thursday, when his boise bolted and oollided with a gate post. Nelson, last nigbt.

Mr John Ford, an old set ler of Waimea West, was found dead in one of his paldocks this evening. Evidently he had broken a blood vessel. He arrived in Nelson in 1842. His age was 74.