ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16486, 27 February 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A WOMAN DROWNED. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 26. The body of a married woman named Mrs Macalister was found floating by the Takapuna wharf this morning at nine o’clock.. Deceased left her house )to go and play tennis and how she j came to be in the water is as yet a mystery. A SHEEP FARMER’S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, February 26. Mr R. G. Black, sheep farmer, who was injured by falling over a cliff on February 9 died to-day. . A FATAL FALL. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN February 26. Peter Mitchell, a labourer, who was admitted to the hospital on _ Tuesday afternoon, suffering from injuries to his head sustained through falling off a truck in the railway yard, died this afternoon. Mr Mitchell was about seventy years of age. He leaves a widow and grown-up family. DROWNED IN THE WAITAKI. [Per Press Association.] , OAMARU, February 26. The body of Miss Mary Gouding, who disappeared on Monday night aftei leaving home on horseback to bring in the cows, was found on an island in the Waitaki River this morning. It is presumed that while crossing over to the island she was washed oil the horse. , A DYNAMITE FATALITY. [Per Press Association.] HOKITIKA, February 26. Mr Henry B. Forster, a former well-known storekeeper of Kumara, who had been working at Messrs Stuart and Chapman’s sawmill at Rirnu, was found at 1.30 o’clock this afternoon about a quarter of a mile from the mill at Seadon Terraco with half his head blown away by dynamite. The deceased had been in very indifferent health for somo considerable time past. He leaves a widow and five young children. He was about forty-two years of age, and had held several positions on local governing bodies and was a member of the Westland Education Board, but owing to indifferent health had never sat 011 the Board, j . CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION. [Per Press Association.] W AIM ATE, February 26. A man named Wantwood, employed at W. J. Wills’s iron works, was experimenting with a cartridge 'at lunch time to-day when tho missilq. exploded, shattering both his arms. , MAN’S BACK BROKEN. [Per Press Association.] OAMARU, February 26. John Grant met with a fatal accident while working at the Oam aru Woollen Mills protective works this morning. Part of the pile-driver fell on Grant and broke his back. He died ten minutes after admission to the Hospital. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT SPRINGFIELD. A serious accident befell Frederick Hadecke, of Rangioia, on Wednesday morning at Springfield. While standing on the derrick of a pile-driver at the bridge being constructed over the Kowhai River, the stretchei gave way, and Hadccke fell to the ground, a distance of twentyfive feet. He was picked up unconscious, with two severe wounds on the head, and was taken to the Christchurch Hospital, where an operation was performed yesterday morning. The condition of the injured man was reported at an early hour this morning to have improved slightly. 1 Edward Barrett, who had his hip dislocated in a tramway accident near the Railway Station on Wednesday evening, was making satisfactory progress at the Hospital last night.