ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SHOT IN THE TEMPLE

(Per Press Association.)

Dunedin, November ti

The police have received information from Nasoby that Edward Ellison, aged forty-four years and single, who had a farm at' Kokonga, was found dead by the side of Kyeburn river yesterday, with a bullet wound in the temple and a revolver (with one chamber discharged) at his s : de.

The Ngamatapouri correspondent of the Patea Press reports a marvellous escape from death. “One of the members of the co-op. works had a rather startling experience,” lie writes. “While sorting out refuse from a keg of blasting powder a spark dropped from his pipe and caused an explosion. He luckily escaped with a severe burning on one side of his face. This should act as a lesson to others not to smoke when handling such dangerous explosives.” Miss Doris Schonfelder, twelve years of age, died at the Wellington Hospital on Tuesday (states the Times), from injuries received through the capsize of a cart near Upper Hutt last Saturday. Deceased’s father, who is the mail contractor at .Akatarawa, accompanied by the girl was driving his mails along a road. When nearing a difficult portion they suddenly encountered a man who was riding a horse on which were packed six dead pigs. The mail horse became affrighted and swerved off the road over an embankment. The occupants of the cart wore thrown into the river bod, and the cart fell on the girl, one of whose legs was broken.