ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 67, 27 March 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

OLD MAX FOUND DEAD. (Per Press Association.) Gisborne, March 26. Owen McCormick, aged 73, was found dead near Te Karaka. .MISHAP ON THE MAORI. Wellingon, March 2(3. Captain James Smith, a well-known Auckland business man, suffered serious injury while returning in the steamer Maori from the excursion to Picton on Monday. He was in company with a neice, and in the Straits a sea which broke on board carried both Captain Smith and his niece ofi their feet. The young lady was bruised and her uncle suffered slight fracture of the collorbone, and had three ribs broken. Captain Smith was just reluming from a visit with his wile to the Cold Lakes. SHOT IN AN ORCHARD. Timaru, March 26. Alfred Shepherd aged 23 who managed his father’s farm at Sutherlands, was found in an orchard on Tuesday, killed by a gunshot wound in Ids head. An open verdict was returned, there being no evidence to show how the shot was fired. A constable said the gnu might have caught in the trees. RESULT OF A FALL. A hoy of eleven, Cecil Fifield, died from compression of the brain, through Fallling on his forehead on a stone when running down a steep hill near Geraldine.