ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8699, 7 January 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS

AND FATALITIES

Per Pres s Association. Ijlunedin, January 6. Inspector O’JBrien received word from Middlemar h. on Saturday that an old age pensiorfer named Sabin died suddenly at Hycle on Friday. Inveecaeoii.l, January 6. A tragic death occurred at Tiabury on Saturday, James Wright, farmer, being gored to death liy a. bull, one horn haring been drhten clean through the body, entering tho back and coming out of the chest. New Plymouth, January 6. The young mai i Wilson, who was injured at the railway deviation works on Saturday, died in the hospitnl to-night. His parents reside; in Christchurch. CnnisTc nuHcn. January 7. A man named ! Thomas Phillips, of Waimate, working on the Midland Railway, dropped dead on Sunday night. Ble nheim, January 7. A man named Herbert Kerr, wharf labourer, married,! aged about 30, was lost oft' the small steamer Tui about a mile out from Wtiirau bar yesterday morning. A part;p, including Captain Eckford, had beeiii fishing in Cloudy Bay on Saturday might and were turning to the river nubuth when deceased, in throwing a bucket to get water, was pulled overboard. SHe could not swim and though pieces hi the hatches were thrown to the struggling man he failed to grasp them a“ud sank in three fathoms. It was water at the time. The body hahs not yet been recovered. Deceased leaves a wife and three young childrt n. NApiee, Janurry 7.

William Alexander Watts, commission agent, resident fat Havelock North, and his son Willian*), a boy of 11, were drowned in the Ngrtnroro river yesterday fafternoon. They were bathing when the boy got ou:t of his depth, and his {father went ito his assistance. Neither could swinu and both were drowned. A youngihr son, aged about 10, who witnessed t'jie accident, gave the alarm, and the' bodies were recovered. J