ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8035, 23 January 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

i'i::i i'iiins as .omnox llasti.vus, January 22. A deaf man named .John Shaw, aged oil, was found dead in a yard lieside a boarding house early this morning. At an inquest the verdict was that death bad been caused by suffocation through falling in an epileptic lit Ai'cki.axd, January 22. C, Jl. liri'ivsi'oril, formerly of Hawi'i'a, and for many years a resident at: Kolioku, died suddenly on the cricket Held at Manganuika oil Saturday. John Osborne died at Covomandel as the result ol injuries in a runaway trap accident 011 Thursday.

AV.hiii, January 22. A miner named Archie Nicholson was killed out eight by an accidental explosion of a charge of gelignite in a rise, between Nos, I and 5 levels, at Ihe Wailii mine. His head was frightfully shattered.

Cu lus'rcm:ucu, January 22. An inquest touching the death of Henry l'agct who was drow ned through being washed oil' an oil-lauiicli at Sumncr, on January loth, was held to-day. A verdict was returned thai death was due to accident. The body was recovered in the estuary near Sumner yesterday afternoon, 111'SH-PEIiLI.NG PATAUTT. A man named Henri' Conrad was fatally injured while bushl'clling near lngh'wood 011 Monday afternoon. Conrad was working for A. Brown and Co., and was bringing a tree down, when it sprang back oil' the stump, 1 striking him with terrific force on the chest. The unfortunate fellow was brought into inglewood for removal to the New Plymouth Hospital, but died at the Inglewood railway slalion prior lo Ihe arrival of the mail train.