ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 2 April 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

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I'd' Press Association. Auckland. .March lit). I'rior to No. I Company of the Harrison Artillery commencing operations at a moving target in Xlanitoto Ch-innel on Friday, a motor launch parly, which was in the line of lire, was warned to get out of the road. The party came in towards the fort with the idea of proceeding to Kohiimiramn. The launch bad reached within a hundred yards of the shore when a piece from a passing shell, presumably a driving baud, fell into the launch. One of the occupants, a voting man named t.'corge Evilt, was si ruck on the hi]) and badly bruised. He was taken ashore and sent to the hospital. Inwrcargill, -March 31. Samuel Waninclc, ageil thirty-six, a single man, who was employed as a traveller for Carswell and Co", and whose home was al Atatiira, was found dead at Desohlcr's Hotel this morning. He is said to have been drinking hcavilv for a few days. Jncvrcargill, April 1. An impiesf was held to-day on Samuel Wamock, who was found dead a I IVscdlor's Hotel yesterday. The verdict was that the. evidence pointed lo the coneiu<on Hint death was due to acute alcoholic poisoning. Auckland, April 1.

A railway accident occurred at the I Onslow Road crossing, Kingsland, about six o'clock on Saturday evening. The train from Auckland, on Hearing the crossing, goes down a curved incline, and until tlie engine is almost at the crossing it cannot be seen. Henry Cyril Greenwood, aged lti years, and Arthur Bennett, 14 years, son of the Mayor of Xewmarket, were driving a waggonette, but, although the train whistled, they apparently did not hear it, and the horses just got over the rails as the engine struck the waggonette, breaking all the foreearriage, but cutting the horses clear. The boys were thrown clear of the rails, Greenwood on to the cattlestop and Bennett on to a patch of grass. The former received a slight contusion at the bottom of the hack and Bennett slight abrasion at the hack of the head. The waggonette was thrown clear of the rails, but the horses had a remarkable escape, not being injured. The boys were taken to their homes. Wauganui, April 1. A. man named Christian Wilson was thrown from a trap to-day and killed. Deceased and family had spent the day at Long Acre, and as he was driving the trap lo the top of a rise where the others were waiting lo return home, the horse bolted, and Wilson was thrown out. Auckland, April 1. A young man named Leslie Carter, a well-borer, while cycling at Ponsonby, collided heavily with a vehicle. His right jaw was broken, and he was othcr--wise injured. At the inquest on Alexander Sclmltz, found dead in Cemetery Gully, a verdict of death from the effects of a bullet wound, se)f-inllietod while of unsound mind, was returned. Wellington, April 1. Mrs Leonidas Smith, who was burned in a lire at her residence at Island Bay on March loth, died in the hospital today. Uisuovne, April 1. At 10 o'clock to-night, at a dance at Whatatutu, Mrs Mark Mooney, of Waimarie, fainled. She was carried outside and was found to be dead. She had apparently tan in good health, and thoroughly enjoying the dance The lady is a well-knownr esldent of the district.