ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9365, 6 February 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Assooiar.iou. Timaru, February 5. David Given, 46 years of age, foreman stone mason on St. Mary’s (English) ohnrob building, met with a shocking death this afternoon.. He was engaged dressing the big slabs of Oamaru stone on the end, when, in turning one, the strong south wind took charge and toppled the slab over. Given was knocked down'and fell with his head and neck on a smaller block of stone, being crushed between it and the big slab. Death was almost instantaneous. Napier, February 5. Joseph McCabe, aged 81 years, Who was serving a sentence of a fortnight’s imprisonment in the Napier gaol, died at that institution this morning. He was suffering from heart disease. At the inquest, Mr H. W. Brabant, Coroner, found a verdict of death from senile decay and heart failure. Christchurch, February 5. Henry Skinner, a bootmaker, was picked up in a dying condition on Bealey Avenue to-nignt, and died whilst being conveyed to the hospital. Palmerston N., February 5. A child named Elsie Hansen, 12 years of age, was drowned in the Manawatu River. The child, whose body was not recovered, was playing with some other children on the river bank at the time of the accident. Dunedin, February 5, Alice Davie, aged 31 years, was admitted to the hospital this morning suffering from a wound in the throat. It appears that she has been despondent of late, but her condition has been much brighter for the past week. Her husband waking at 5 this morning, asked her what kind of a night she had passed and she replied “right enough,” An hour later he missed her and he eventually found her huddled up in the washhouse with her throat cut. An -operation was performed at the hospital and as far as can be gathered, the wound (which was made with her husband’s razor) is not likely to cause death.