ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 October 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Auckland, Thursday. Patrick Whaleu, aged 40, while cmployed felling a tree at Pungapunga, was killed by a branch which dropped on his head, crushing his skull. Wanganui, Thursday. Matthew Connor, a well-known upriver settler, was drowned yesterday, afternoon. He was crossing the river in a canoe when a strong fresh was running. The eanoo was capsized. The body has not yet been recovered. Hokitika, Thursday. Wai Tenahij a ferryman at Waitoto and Arawata rivers, was drowned in a creek near the Waitoto river.

Napier, Last Night. An accident which resulted fatally occurred on the Napier Harbor Board dred'ge J.D.O. yesterday morning. Ona of the workmen, a man named Michael Henry, was sitting on the grab holding a rope to which was attached a piece of timber that had fallen into the hopper, when the grab-chain carried away, and the grab, with Henry on it, fell into the hopper. In the act of falling, the grab canted and buried'him under the watsr, but he was able to crawl out, and won then sent to the hospital. It was found on examination that Henry was Severe'v injured internally, and that one of his ribs had been driven through the lung. He died at the hospital this morning.