FATAL ACCIDENT AT MOMAHAKI.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 996, 12 February 1883, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MOMAHAKI.

+ Mr Michael Sweeney, school teacher at Messrs Hearn and Kennedy’s private school, was killed at Momahaki this morning, by being thrown or falling off his horse. The body when found by Mr Reid, of Waverlcy, was lying on the horse track near the side of the main road. It was warm, but life was extinct, and it was conveyed to Wavcrley. There was no blood or bruises to be seen on it, and it is thought the neck was broken. Deceased was a single man, about forty years of age, very steady, and much liked by those who knpw him. An inquest will be held on the body. AUCKLAND ITEMS. (per press association.) AUCKLAND, This day. The Mercury Bay Timber Company’s balance sheet shows a profit for the year of £5,701. A dividend equivalent to per cent, has been declared. James Fulton, aged 16, was drowned in the Waikato River, near Tnakau, on Saturday. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. GREYMOUTH, Fob. 10. The afternoon train from Brunncrlon to Greymonth,’consisting of about sixteen coal trucks, three passenger carriage, and a break van, met with a serious accident crossing the Oraotumotu Bridge, about three and a half miles from town* Some of the coal wagons got off the track about fifty yards before coming to the bridge, the engine and light coal waggons got off the rails, and after it was got on, the train went back to get some way on, as there is a slight gradient there. It was then the trucks got off. The.wagons must have jumped from sleeper to sleeper, many of which are cut in two, and a great many axle boxes and springs broken, while on the next end of the bridge about ninety feet of the track has been stripped of sleepers, all of which are heaped up together. Some of the rails are twisted and broken. The train was stopped before the passenger cars got on to the bridge. A gang of men were soon set to work to clear away the wreck and repair damages. Carriages were sent from B.runnerton for the passengers. The train to which the accident happened was very full of passengers.