ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 92, 13 December 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Por Press Association.) Wellington, December 12. • A seaman on the .Niwaru named Graves fell down the ship s hold lasi nh/ht and suffered concussion ol tnc brain He was taken to the hospital, 116 V2. At the inquest on Frank Warbnck, Who was killed at Port Awaam, a verdict was returned that he came to hi death through accidentally falling backward from the wharf into a boat, and no blame was attachable, to anjAt the inquest at Tokomaru Bay regarding the death of George Walworth a verdict was entered that decease, strangled himself in u state of depression.

A Cambridge youth named Harry Arraer met with a somewhat serious accident the other day in a very' simple manner. He was taking a ‘ the Katpiro creek, and m n 1 the stream he tripped and te l iipo a ti-tree stake, which pierced hie ting completely through, hreaking d E and sticking in the wound. A- ooimadc tried to pull the stick out with hm hands, bub being unable to do so, afe there was not much to take hold o , he substituted bis teeth, and then succeeded in extracting the foreign •matter from.the young nuui« thlg . A young man named David W Hluuris met with a very painlul accident on Saturday while discing on Bishop Aovill’s estate, at Kelso (says the Mataura Ensign). His right hand became entangled in the reins and the hoi sc gave a sudden jerk forward with the result that, before ho could get his hand free, his thumb was torn Irom the first joint. . A bov named Dowall was playing with a rifle cartridge on Monday at Balclutha when it exploded, with the result that he received severe injuries, the bullet entering the forearm and coming out at the hand.