ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

iPor Press Association.) Auckland, September 11. At 8 o’clock yesterday, Alexander Nelson, aged 43, shift boss in the tunnel on the railway line near Mmingutoroto, was found dead in his bed, at camp. la the afternoon the body of Michael McKenna, aged SG, a ganger on the. line, was found in a paddock 200 yards from camp. James Devonport, aged 71, who was injured, presumably by collision with a motor car, on the 3rd, died to-day. Wanganui, September 11. , A serious accident occurred ' this afternoon on the new Convent buildings now in course of erection on St. John’s Hill. Five men were working on the scaffolding, ‘a considerable height above the ground, when the structure collapsed. The men were precipitated to earth, and all were more or less injured. Robert Rawston had his leg broken. New Plymouth, September 12. A man named Martin, employed as a groom in a livery stables, dropped dead last, night. Another early settler, Thomas Inch, died this morning. Ho was seventyfour years of ago. Ho arrived in the first ship in 1841. He was employed »n the boating service and subset ently by the Harbour Hoard for man r sai s.