ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PIE PRESS ASSOCIATION. WEllington, January 7. Tt» body of a mf, who is supposed ti bo a labourer named Harry Ri. k wee Found in the WAinui-o-mßtastr.am yesterday. Hi is supposed to hive been accidat tilly drowned. Last Frid iy whils". the Gorinthio was at Hobart W. Hirdwick, boatswain, was killed whilst unshipping. Ons of thb deriick's b?om su4d«nly slipper! and crushed his he\d against the mas'. Frank Noton, who served in on < of the New Z aWnd contingent!), and went from Sou'.h Africa to London, works! his passage oui on the Oo inthic. On D camber 15th, white bringing up stores from the hoi I, he was knocked down a distance o r thirty feet by being struck with the hoisting gfa-. His skull was frac'.ured and one of his legs fractured. On arrival of the vtssel t.<-d<y he was transferred to the district hospital. Blenheim, January 7. A2i yeir-oldsm of Mr A. H. Lu as, of the Telegraph Department, was playing with a kitten, and while he wax putting it into, or taking it out of » box, the lid fell on the nape of th" child's neck, dislocating it. The little fellow is diad. Gisborne, January 7. David Curtain, a ctrpenter aged 50, was caught inthebiltiug at Clayton and Company's timber mill to-day and twisted round the shaft for six or sh'pi revolu'ious. The whole of his left side was battered in, every rib being broken, his arm, collarbone, an I shouMer bl >d" being fractund. Ho diel from the injuries.