ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2212, 16 October 1907, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Press Association,

CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 15. A man named William Jenkin, ail employe at the Addington workshops, met with an accident while working a planing machine this morning, losing four fingers of his left hand. A shooting accident, fortunately attended by no serious results, occurred in the city about midday. Mr. William Knowles, a hairdresser who lias a shop in Lower Manchester street, was handling a revolver in his shop When he pulled the trigger the weapon fired a cartridge which had been left in it. The bullet passed through a window and entered the shop next door, striking a young man named Frank Losslie Berry on the temple. Berry was conveyed to tlie hospital, where it was found that tlie wound was not particularly dangerous. The hairdresser. stated to the police that he had bought this business about three months ago, and was cleaning out the cupboard this morning when lie discovered the revolver. He was snapping it round when it suddenly went off. THAMES, Oct. -la.. John Houston, employed at Waikaka, on Piako lands, is missing. He left Morrinsville the other day fbr Wai’kaka, and subsequently his horse, with saddle and bridle, was found. It is believed that Houston was drowned in the Horohoro creek, which was in flood -at the time. The police are making a search for the body. Houston was a stranger to New Zealand, having come from Australia, and is believed to be single.