ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 3 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per I'rcßS Association. Dargaville, Monday. Edward Mulliern, about nine years of ago, while bathing at Kaihu Cl'euk on Sunday afternoon, got out of his dqitli. lieing unable to swim, he was di owned. His mother made a determined but inell'eetual attempt to rescue him. Ilawera, Monday.

A boy named Hector Morrison, eight | years of ago, son of a settlor at Wailn. was can<rlit in the belting of some milking machinery on Saturday. He was very badly injured, bis I"" 1 " 3 » eln ? broken. He died yesterday. (iirtbornc, Monday. Tlit* body of a middle-aged man, well drpssed, was found floating in the sur at, Waikiinao hoficli tins morning, appeared not to bave been 111 the water lon«. The arms were folded across the ln'cast. There was a wound in the back of the bead from whbb blood was flowin.'. In a hip pocket was a Panama lint and in a vest pocket a key with a sixpenny pieoe attached, and a piece of blue p'ajfcr with "John Owens, infield Road, Napier," written on it. T body lias not been identified locally. It is 'supposed the man fell froml the steamer Waikare yesterday and was not mis6efl ' Napier, Last Nighty In reference to a telegram from Gisborne stating that the body 0a mi • a-ed man had been found m the _ sm there and that in the pockets was found an address, "John Owens Enfield Boad, jN apior," inquiries have elicited the fact that Mr. John Owens is at present m Napier. It is supposed from the description given that the body is that of a man named David James Young Kirk in the employ of Nelson Bros., Limited, Tomoana, as a clerk, and wlio left on transfer to their Gfabornc branch on the 26t1. November, tat To has not put in an appearance at the works there.

A nasty accident occurred at the Eltham railway station yesterday mointa? Porter Arthur Clifford was engaged in shunting operations, and by some means got lus right thigi tween tlic buffers of two trucks, and although the impact was comparatively slight he sustained a distressing wound and had. to be driven to a doctor. Ijo one seems to have beon in the immediate vicinity at the time of the accident, and the injured man was found lying across the rails.