ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 August 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Pei Press Association. Wellington, August 15. Henry Fail-brother, the jockey who , was injured at the recent meeting a;' , Xrentham, died in Wellington Hospital ! to-day. He was a single man, and be . longed to Hastings, i Whangarei, August 15. ' An accident, which resulted fatally, ■ uciiimrod to Kdward Broueher, a single ! mau, ;su years of age, at Whatutiri. He with his brother, was engaged crosscut--1 ting a tree. 1-le took charge of the saw ' as the tree was about to fall. The broi ther got clear away. Looking round, he saw Kdward pinned to the ground, the tree lying across his body. Great difficulty was experienced in liberating the unfortunate man. Both legs were badly broken, and severe internal injuries inDieted. The sufferer was conveyed to Whangarei Hospital. He died an hoiir later. He was perfectly conscious to the last. Deceased's parents live in England, whence he came ten years ago. Wellington, August 15. As a, result <rf applying a lighted mutch to a leak in a gas-pipe, a. Chinaman and two Europeans had their faces burned. The force of the explosion shattered the windows in the shop, and two won who were standing in front of the. building received some injuries. Auckland, August 15. appears to be a case of suicide occurred this morning in a boardinghouse iu Hobson street, a remittance man named John C'oekbnrn Owen Basscl.l, about; 40 years of age, being discovered dead in hod Standing on a table licsidc. him was a glass, the contents of ivluch are supposed to bo a mixture containing cyanide of potasium.A bottle containing a quantity of the same mixture i was also in the room, while oil the floor < uns a wrapper with the name of the ( poison upon it. Bassett was last seen c alive between two and three o'clock yes- i tcidjiv aiternomi, when he was seen go- 1 ing into his bedroom. t