ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 17 December 1907, Page 1

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Prosß Association. DARGAVILLE, Dec. 16. It is stated here that a. gum digger named -Martin suicided at Shelly Beach by blowing out bis brains. Tlie-ro are no further details. AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. Mr H. F. S eager, fonneifly officer in charge of tlio Auckland telegraphs, died suddenly yesterday while surf bathing at Waiwe-ra. Several men in the vicinity noticed his suddenii collapse, and brought him ashore, but efforts -to restoro animation- were unavailing. Death is supposed l to- ibt due to heart failure. Deceased was 54 years of age, and was a son of Mr H. Seager, late superintendent of Mount View Mental' Hospital, Wellington. He was appointed officer in charge at Auckland in 1900, and held a similar position at Dunedin until a few months a."o, but had to leave through ill-health.

A. boy named Robert' Scott, . aged seven, son of Robert AA’altcr Scott, of Huntley, climbed a fence enclosing the shaft of an old mine and fell sixty feet on a shelving bank, thlenee another 20 feet into water. His body was recovered half an hour later. Lifo was extinct.

AVAIPAWA, Dec. 16. ' Thomas 'Hughes, an elderly man-, was found dead in bed a,t the Commercial hotel. He was apparently in tine best, of health last night-. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 16.

A sad fatal accident occurred- at Amberley on Saturday afternoon. AVilliam Berry, aged' 35, schoolmaster at Balcairn, took a party of scliiool boys for nature study to a picnic resort known- as the “Natural Bridge,” ten miles from Amberley. On their return journey the horse in the trap, driven by Berry, became restive, plunging back. After crossing the bridge it backed into the side of the bridge, and breaking the protection rail fell into fifty feet oif a chasm below. Berry’s skull was fractured', and lie died in a few minutes. -His son William, aged four, and another boy, George Deal, were killed l instantaneously.