TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1031, 26 November 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Wanganui, Nov. 24

While felling bush ou his family's property at Ahu Aim on Saturday, James Jobu Brownlie, aged 20 years, was struck by a tree aud died when being carried to Kai Iwi.

A nine-months old infant, named Daphne Death fell out of a perambulator at Castlediff on Saturday aud was strangled. Invercargill, Nov. 24.

A farmer named William Ballantyne Priuder, aged 32, of Wairie, was accidentally killed ou Saturday evening. He was discing a ploughed field aud when tbe machine on which he was riding, descended into a hollow, he was apparently thrown from h»s seat iu front of the disc, which came to a stop on his shoulders. The accident was not witnessed by anyone, aud deceased had probably been two hours under the heavy machine before being discovered. Life was then extinct.

A drowning accident happened at Otautau on Saturday, when John Garrick, one of the best known fanners in Southland, met his death. It appears that Garrick, along with an employee, was handstraining barbwire on the edge of a lagoon when the wire broke and he was precipitated Into about nine feet of water. The employee made strenuous endeavours to rescue the drowning man, but without avail. He called for assistance and Mrs Garrick, Mr M. O’Brien and others came to the scene, but fully ■fifteen minutes elapsed after the accident before the body was recovered. A medical man was on the scene promptly, and restorative measures were applied but without avail.