ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 26 January 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru, January 25

, Xp-day a painfully sudden death ppeurred. Robert Helson, whjle cycling to work, was seen to suddenly fall off his bicycle. On assistance arriving', Kelson’s con.ditiou 1 was seen to he serious, and medical aid was summoned, but a* doctor, on arriving, could only? pronounce life to be extinct It is understood deceased had previously been treated for heart disease.

Whilst a man named Chisholm, from Southland, who was visiting friends in Oamaru, was walking to church yesterday morning, he fell into: the arms ot his son-in-law, and suddenly . expired. Deceased had been in delicate health for some time, and had previously been treated for heart disease. Dunedin, January 25.

A boy named Ernest Buchanan,' five years old, was accidentallydrowned in the Molyneux River at Tuapeka Mouth on Saturday. The child fell into the river while play-: ing on the bank with another child,i The body has not been recovered.; Westport, January 25.

A young man named Abraham Robert Hayman was instantaneously killed by a fall of earth and' stone from the sluicing face at’a mining claim on Files Terrace.

Hamilton, January 25

At Te Rapa, on Saturday, while riding in a cart with, two other Maori boys, Te Rangi Taitukau, aged fourteen, was fatally crushed through the cart overturning in a hole in the road and pinning him to the ground by the shoulders.