ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 94, 16 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DROWNED AT WOODY BAY. (Per Press Association.! Auckland, December 16. A native of India, known as Di, was fishing from a dinghy at Woody Bay, in company with three other persons, when water came over the stern and swamped the dinghy. All but Di swam ashore. Then it was seen that the Indian was in danger of drowning. An attempt was made to reach him, but he sank, and was drowned before any help could be rendered.

OLD MAX’S EXPERIENCE. Christchurch, December 35. Alfred Lawrey, 63 years of age, was brought to the hospital this morning after several days’ suffering with a crushed leg. Ho was employed at Halswell, felling trees, by himself, and last Monday a tree which hung on to another fell, pinning him to the ground. It took Lawrey three hours to extricate himself, but he could not walk, and lay for a day and a half in the open air, no one coming near him. His cooees were at length heard by John Murphy, a farmer, who took Lawrey to his (Lawrey’s) tent, where Lawrey, thinking his injury slight, attended to himself, Murphy sending food. This morning Lawrey’s leg was much worse, and a constable brought him to the hospital, where his right leg was found to bo shattered.

A serious accident took place near Ngaroto on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. (says the To Awamutu ‘Post’), when the cow-catcher of a passing train struck the head of a native named Hori Matini, who was lying on the permanent way. The unfortunate man seems to have been walking down the line from Ohaupo, where ho had been doing some shearing, but it is not known how he happened to be lying on the permanent way. The injured man was taken to the Hamilton hospital.