ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Association. LEAHN, yesterday.. A shocking accident occurred ai.out sax last evening to Mr. F. AA r . Barrett, of the literary staff of the AJanawatu Farmer. An acetylene light would not burn, and he went into the yard to ascertain the cause. Al < ise was heard which was merely Ihr light to be the throwing of a tin about;, tut later he was found with tho front part of his head and face smashed in. and the gasometer wreck;d. lie was smoking, which is supposed to be the cause of the explosion. Ho is still unconscious, with little hope of recovery. Mr. Barrett is well known on this coast, and in the Lower Wairerapa. MASTERTON, yesterday. At the_ inquest on Hugh Welch, drowned in the Ruamahuaga river on Sunday, the jury returned a verdict of found drowned. f

DUNEDIN, yesterday. George Kidds, a miller, widower, who lived at Saddle Hill, died in his house yesterday. He complained of a cold when lie got up, and decided nos to go to church for fear of disturbing people with his cough. After breakfast he had a slight attack of vomiting, but was all right at 10.30. An hour later his son Went into the dining-room,, and found him dead in ]j;s chair. DUNEDIN, last night. Between eigtli o’clock last night and seven o’clock this morning, Nora Greet], aged forty-five years, died in the yard of her home at Kaikorai. At the first named hour she left her children in the house and went out to the back fo hang out clothes. She had not returned when tho children’s bed-time arrived and they, thinking that she had gone to visit her sister, who lives near by, went to bed. This morning, AA’illie Creeed (seven years old) went into the yard and found her lying under the clothes line, dead. She was apparently in her usual stat'o of health yesterday. The only complaint she had even made was of pain in her side. Deceased’s husband (Daniel Creeed), is working at Opio Nightcaps.