ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Waipawa, .Monday. Tiium.is Hughes, an elderly mall, was louml dead ill boil at the Commercial Hotel. Apparently he was in the best of health lust night. Auckland, Holiday. A lioy named Hubert 'Scott, ajjed seven, sun of Hubert Walter Scott, of iluntly, climbed a fence enclosing the shall of an old mine, fell sixty feet on lo a shelving bank, andathence another twenty feet into water. The body was recovered half an hour later. Life was then extinct. Christcliurch, Monday. A fnlal accident occurred at Amberley on Saturday, Mr. William llerry, a schoolmaster, took a party of boys for nature study to a picnic resort known as .Natural Bridge, ten miles from Amberlcy. On the return journey, the horse in the trap driven by Berry became restive. Plunging back after crossing the bridge, it backed into the side of the bridge. The trap broke the protectionrail and fell into a lifty-fcet chasm. Air. Berry's skull was fractured, and he died In a few minutes. His son William, aged four, * and another boy named George Heal were killed instantaneously. Mr. Berry wan 3a years old.

Dargaville, Monday. It is stated here mat a gumdigger named .Martin committed suicide at Shelly Beach by blowing out his brains. Auckland, Monday. Jlr. H, F. Scnger, formerly officer in charge of the Auckland Telegraph Office, died . suddenly yesterday while surfbathing at Waiwern. Several men in the vicinity noticed his sudden coiiaw and brought him ashore, Out, <3ior!s L to restore animation were uuavailiii" Death is supposed to be due to heart tailure. Deceased was 54 years of a.'e. He was a son of Mr. H. Seager, late Superintendent of Mount View Mental Hospital, Wellington. He was appointed Oince.-m-Cl.arge at Auckland in 1900, iiiid he.,l a similar position at Dunedin id a lew months ago, when he had to leave on account of ill-health.

~, , „. u,B «ome, Last Night. Charles Nield, of local timber fame, Idt 111 a trap on Saturday for Tola-i purposing returning to town this nioni' mg. .vboiit li o'clock this morning JsioJil was discovered dead on the road, and •e trap at the bottom of a hill, while l lie horse, lice, was standing by. At an inquest this afternoon a verdict of accidental death was returned.

A young man named Henry Campbell, engaged at the Taranaki Petroleum Company s works at Moturoa, met with an accident yesterday. He was engaged on the scaliolding of No. 3 bore, and fell a distance of al„ut 25ft to the ground. oHuimelyn. , -.ink against some ironwok which broke the force of the fall mid lie sustained no very serious injury Jr. Home attended him, and found that lie had snlforcd severe contusion of tl|e chest, but no very serious results are' iinticipated. ft will be remembered that (ampbell met with a severe accident some months ago, when one of the t.reakwaler'buses passed over his chest. I>ul as he is a. well-built man of ureal constitution, he pulled through, thoiK.li Mis condition was very critical. p