ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 44, 23 February 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCIDENT TO BUSHMAN.

Pee Peers Association

Pahiatua, February 22

A backblocks settler named Grub* ner, at Maku, near Pongaroa, had a very painful experience. He owns a bush section on the Puketoi ranges. He was returning home alone this evening after bush-felling, carrying an axe in his hand. He tripped and fell on the axe, and sustained an ugly gash right across the face. He suffered considerably, the wound bleeding copiously. Grubner walked two miles over rough country, and rode another three miles to the nearest farmhouse, where he fainted. He was subsequently conveyed to a private hospital suffering severely from loss of blood and on the verge of collapse.

DEATH IN A BOARDINC-HOUSE.

Hamilson, February 22. Frank Horton .aged 69, a widower, by occupation a gardener, was found dead in his room at a boardinghouose this evening. He had complained earlier in the day of feeling unwell. It is supposed that he died of heart fail-