ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 315, 14 January 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TRAIN CRASHES INTO 'BUS. Per Press Association. Auckland, Lust Night. At Avondalc to-day a train crashed into a 'bus which attempted to cross just in front of it. The. driver of the 'bus (H. Farrar), and the two passen : gere (William Shepherd, schoolteacher, of Pahiatua, and William Horton, nurseryman, of Lanie Place), wero injured, Shepherd somewhat seriously.

JUMPED OVERBOARD. Invercargill, Last Night. On the passage of the Marama from Dunedln to Bluff, Hugh Dalgleish, about 45 years of age, jumped overboard outside the Otago Heads. His body has been recovered. Deceased was eccentric.

MAORI GIRLS DROWNED. Palmerston N., Last Night. Two little Maori girls, aged two years, were drowned in the Manawatu river at Rangitane on Saturday. The body of one was found floating down the river by some Maoris, but the other has not yet been recovered. 'An inquest on the one found was held to-day, when a verdist of accidental drowning was returned.

Gisborne. Last Night. Thi3 Ilfternoon Gladvs Margaret, Brown. Jvc years, of age. was drowned* in the Waimata river. The mother and friends were near at hand, the girl hav-> mg wandered away to play. When the mother looked for her, she saw the hat floating: down the river but no sign ,}\\ Bhe ,nformcd tte P o "<* and the body was recovered about half an hour after the child was missed Auckland, Last Night. Hn oH man named Peter Upton Bar«tt whjbt attaching a horse I a dray m Customs street this afternoon, was knocked down and kicked by the anf nos broken, and expired whilst his in. JJjnes -ere being amended to by A' boy named Cortett was playing i»l' of heavy timber fell u pon him TT« Zntl \ br ? k6a '<*•' "ad, ana