ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9163, 5 June 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association

Wellington, June 4. Mr James Longton, nightwatchman at the General Post Office, who fell downstairs last night, died in the hospital this evening. The deceased was about 60 years of age, and had been eight or nine years employed at the Post Office. He was well-known in bowling circles, being a local skip. Mr Henry Hill-Beckett, a civil servant, who resides at Oreswiok, was found lying on the OrangiKaupapa road, leading to Northland, in an unconscious fstate,“*f at about half-past nine last night There was a wound on his head, and a pool of blood had formed close to where he was found. Dr. Begg was summoned to a house to which Mr Hill-Beckett was conveyed, and on his recommendation the injured man was taken to the hospital, where he is in a very serious condition. The case is surrounded with some mystery. Mr Hill-Beckett may have fallen over a bank and injured his head, or he may have been assaulted. Invercargill, June 4. While playing in a paddock at Athol, Albert Horell, aged five years, was kicked by a horse. His right eye was destroyed, a jaw bone smashed, and the nasal bone fractured.

New Plymouth, June 4. When following the funeral of a neighbour, an old settler of Okato named Greeuway, met with a fatal accident. ■ His horse stumbled going up hill, throwing Greonway, who was an old man, out of the trap He sustained, ja severe fracture of, the skull andJdied some hours'later.