ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 76, 28 March 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Whanqabbi, March 27. Wil'iara Stead, of Waikiekip, was killed by a tree fulling on him. CHBiiTCHUitCH, Meroh 27. A g'tl Mabel Bexton was run over by a truck of whett attached to a traction engii.oat Swannano* on Wednesday evening and was killed. At the inqu at a verdict of accidental death was returned, wbh a ridrr that one jof the engine men was somewhat to blame for r.ot doing more to prevent 'chih/rei riding on the drawbar of the 'n ck, after having one 3 warned them off. Wellington, Match 27. At the inques-. concerning th« death of Robert Auty, a storekeeper at Ponrm, who tMi off an express, a ver.dict of accidental death was returned. In regard to the death of Mrs Mary Montgomery, a woman 38 years of &gv, who was found de.id «t hrr homo in Tory-street, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from heart failure. Napier, March 27.

A fatal accident occurred to-day at | a contracting camp at Waipuri, about 30 mil«-s from Napier. During blasting operations a puce of rock struck on> the workmen mmed John Gieenaway, I aged 26, and unmarried, fracturing hi.skull, He died at the hotpital this | evening. Dunedih, March 27, A young man named Shepherd, employed in the Woodhaugh pnper mills, was found on the beach with three revolver ballets in his head, and a revolver close at hand. One of his eyw has been totally destroyed. None of the bullets have been buk i is he will recover. Ho is in hcspital.