Accidents and Deaths.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 32, 8 February 1904, Page 2

Accidents and Deaths.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. «. Charles Dlaxel, a sailor belonging to t-he schooner Saxon, fell overhead on the voyage from Wlmngare to A iicklund, and was drowned. TAIHAPE, Feb. 5. The boidy of Mrs Flynn, wife of a ay-operative labourer on the railway uit Mataroa, was found in the Hau-t-apu Hlwor yestcriday. It is supposed she suicided. TAIHAPE, Feb. 0. A man named Joseph Skerrett, employed in the Mataroa railway tuinmel, was hoklin'B a handful of dynamite caps when they exploded, blowing off his loft lmuid and slightly injuring t'ho right. MARTON, Feb. 5. A young main named William James fell off a load of straw on to a pitclirforlc prong. It penetrated to the lower [Wirt of tho abdomen, and went right -through the body. An operation was performed, but the sufferer -died this morning. DUNEDIN, Feb. 7. H-ugh RichiardfKvn, a farmer, se-ven-ty-onc years of age, died to-day ns the result- of injuries caused by his being thro-wn out of a cart while driving ta a dairy factory this morning. 'llia horse bolted, and the cart coming imto collision with a post deceased was thrown out. He leaves n wiidow and grown up family of seven.' WELLINGTON, Feb. 7. Benjamin Stych, a married man about forty years of age, re-Hiding- in M-acdonakl Crescent, swallowed the contents ol a bottle labelled "spirits of salts' at six o'clock on Satin-day evening, and- died at the hiospltal at three this moriving. Boceaseirt, who came to Wei ling-ton fro.ni Kketnliiimn, where he hud been employed In a flax mill, luud b.vn out of work for some time and it is supposed this weighed an his mind.