Fatalities, Etc.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 13

Fatalities, Etc.

'.- .»,'■■■■ '■ - '■•,-■>.: .-,■■,. .-, The policehave been -advised ■ that a •youTfg rirnjin; named Robert Qlyde/ ; Avas killed- at--Omihi, Otago,, . last,, week. While driving a horse witha load 1 of firewood, fell' off /the dray,'and th© wheel' passed over his !head 1 . ' '■'•■■ ■•• .-.';'.-• A boy napieci. Gaffaney had been riding on a; Qambrjcjge roller at Temuka (Canterbury). He .shifted/to the front, unknown the driver, ? ahd fell off, the roller' ,: passing" over and killing him. a---- i, ■■■.-. As a lorry was passing tlje, "left luggage" shed at the Queen's wharf, Wellington, tho ' horses "'shied 'and crushed an expresshiaii', : R. -yE: Martin, against the shed. Martin suffered a broken rib and injuries to the breastbone. '~.- . ;,:;. ~ '..,. . The body of an elderly '■ 'wan '.'., was J licked up's m the. Wellington haijboiir ast week.? : It was later identified, as that of J4»ies Glash.en.,'.,' who/had. been missing for some days.; ■.■'.■■■ A middle-aged man .named 'Riphard Milner Buchanan, a bailiff, aiid ay longstanding resident '.of 'Apjiburton,/'.who 'was recoA'erihg from; a drihkmg-bqut, died last iveek.. found in the house, and it is,understood .that is is a cage of . suicide/. Jiy^poisbningv Mr. J. A. Montgoinerie,' iorVihany years, iii Reefton, 'was thrown 'out last week aiud badly' injured/ S. Tarkington, a blacksmith, - : was killed at HaAvera by being run over, by a goods train. ■•-'-. 4> Ay.y. -4 : ■ Frank Thomas received concus'sien. of the brain and injury to spine by : being caught under a train at Wanganui and dragged 60' yards. '> ;,- ■'' ;." ::