ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 7 February 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. Maxi.awkka, February 0. liichard Ul'ow 11, employed in a Government gravel pit, was killed on the railway line near Ohiugaiti last night. Deceased hail apparently been lying between the rails when he was struck by the engine of tho evening mail train. Nelson, February G. In connection with tho feared loss of Edward Hooker, who loft Motueka last Thursday in a boat to sail to Nelson, the steer-oar of the boat has been found washed ashore near the blu IV at Moutere. The inquest on Alexander Haiders, who was killed at the briekworks last Thursday, concluded late to-night. The verdict of the jury was that deceased was accidentally killed, and that the resistance post was not sufficiently fixed to stand the extra strain whiih it was called upon to bear, and that m their opinion the work should have been suspended after the accident to i'end.'r until permanent repairs had been eliecteil. It transpired that on the same morning, while Pender was at the brake, an aecideut occurred and lie was struck on the right side, but less scvoroly than Haiders,