PAINFUL ACCIDENTS.
A MAIL CARRIER’S EXPERIENCE, PRESS ASSOCIATION Thames, last night. Annie McWilliams, domestic servant, employed at Karangahako, was reoeivod into the Thames hospital sufibring from severe burns accidentally received while attending to a washing boiler. She threw some inflammable material on the fire, whioh severely burned her face, head, and arms.
Peter Clark, a young mail carrier, while riding on the ranges at tho back of tho Thames, was thrown from bD horse and jambed against a kauri treo. He sustained a fractured Jeg, tbo bono protruding several inches. With marvellous forti-
tuda ho socured tho horse, remounted by resting his weight on tho broken and blooding limb, and rode to where help was available at tho mining camp, Ha was carried by relays on 'an improyised stretcher to the Thames, where he now lies in the hospital.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1828, 8 August 1906, Page 2
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139PAINFUL ACCIDENTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1828, 8 August 1906, Page 2
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