ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

,I’er Press Assoenitian.i ! Thames, January IS. The inquest nn tlic Chinaman who shot himself showed that deceased had had health. His relatives had decided to send him hack to China. The night before lie killed himself he was heard walking on the verandah muttering all night. Gisborne, January IS. Harry Field, aged forty-five, single, a carter employed by the Public Works Department, met with a serious Occident at Bakaurna, near Gisborne, to-day. Field was driving an empty dray along a narrow road, when the horse shied and precipitated the vehicle over the cliff, and all fell 70 feet to the bottom. The mart was thrown clear of the dray, hut received serious injury to his back and was badly bruised. Ho was conveyed to jtown this evening by train and adLmitted to the hospital. His condition is not critical. To Kuiti, January IS. A young man named A. W. Evans v{fb "ionrd at Piopio, sixteen miles from To Kuiti, yesterday, with a revolver shot in his head and the weapon in Ins hand . Ho died shortly afterwards. Evans came from England about two years.-ago. Timaru, January 18. Alfred Ivery, aged 36 years, a farmer at Fairview, near Timaru, was found dead on the road this morning. Last night he went cut riding a young horse, and was thrown and dragged some distance . Ho had been dead some hours before being found. The inquest was adjourned till tomorrow. Dunedin, January 18.

A man named Peter Campbell was the victim of an accident at Owaka which resulted in one of his hands being torn off. He was brought to the hospital to-uight, hut at the present details of the accident are not available.