ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 169, 21 July 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PKR PUSS ASSOCIATION. Tauranga, July 20. Some boys were shooting w th a pea rifle in the township of Te Puke when one of the bullets struck a Maori standing near in the left breast, penetrating the lung. He is in a critical condition. Intbrcarqill, July 20. A married man namtd Paul Rodgars, aged 30, was blasting a stump with a charge of gelignite in the seaward bush on Saturday, and after firing the fuse took cover behind the house. His wife found him shortly after the explosion lying insensible with fracture of the skull. It is presumed that he put his head round the corner to see the explosion and was struck by a flying lump of wood. He died in the hospital. Nelson, July 20. Kotfger W, Kingdoo, a well-known solicitor, died suddenly from heart disease. His age was 42. Wanqanui, July 20. A young Maori woman, wife of Niel Wilson, of Kauangaroa, committed suicide this morning by taking strychnine. The hosbind went outside, and on returning some little time after he found his wife on the floor, and a battle containing strychnine on the table. Emetics were applied, but were unavailing. Tho deceased was depressed at the loss of a child two months ago. Pahiatua, July 20. Yesterday a man named Read, a saddler at Mangatainoka, in company with Sheary, the constable at Mangatainoka, went out shooting hares. Read asked Sheary what the time was. Sheary ohanged his gun from under one arm to the other to look at .his watob. The gun from some cause or other went off, and the full charge lodged in Read's thigh, ic Aiding a bad wound. Read died in the hospital before hie depositions could be taken. Death ia attributed to shook. Deceased was about 24 years old. TTn Ijshisi a wife and ohild. Latb. At the inquest on the death of Reed, who was shot at Mangatainoka yesterday by Constable Sheary, a verdict of occidental death through shook and loss of blood was returned. The jury added a rider exonerating Sheary. Received 20, 10.40 p.m. St. Petersburg, July 20. A large river steamer was burned at Nijainovgorod, and 50 out of the 200 passengers are missing.