ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 3 November 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

I ”[Pnn Pumas AaaoolA'rloN.] M i \Vellington, Noveinl)el' 2. The nnidentified bod-y of a man apparently abont forty years of age, was found to-day amongst some huslies he. side ithe...railwa.v trackhetween Belmont and iHEl)’\\'fll‘(l’S stations. The man had apparently been dead three or four weeks, - - =1 Hokitika, November 2. A, Chantalo,v_§lle, a young electrician einployecl at 4tlle,Ross Goldfields-mine wentol’lt prospeotirigg at daylight on Sunday morning, takiiiga slasher to r-uta track. He arrived at Ross Hospital at seven a.m. in a fainting condition with his left. hand almost severed from the wrist caused by a mishit of the slasher,_ ten tendons being severed; His condition is S€I'lO11S,~()\\'lllg to the great loss of blood. . lnvercargill. .\'ovemher 2. Wm. Hinckby. a ‘farmer of Brown’s, plat-ed .soxne-detonator caps on a tree stump. After -a. while lle~fol'gog-,abont them, and ciomnienc-ed to chop the stinnpf An explosion followed, which broke the head of the axe in two, andl seriously damaged Hinckhy about the face and eyes, An operation was performed in the Southland hospital today.~ Hinckby is progressing’ satisfactorily. His esca‘pe‘nlust be con-‘sidel'ed-mal'VellollS. , .