ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 65, 6 March 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

IVr I'ruaa Association. Duiicdm, TliurSihiy

James Moure Quiim, single, aged UO, fell over a cliff at China Mat, Jlea.miont, ami was instantly killed. Demised was mustering sheep at the time. Wellington, Thursdav. Kduard iiroiigli, J2 jcar, of age, employed in tile Government ltiiil>vay goods shed, was run over by a truek last evening on which he was cadcaioniig t.) place a tni'paiiliii. lie was taken to lite hospital, where his right, arm li d to be amputated jn.-l below the sir,older. Hie man is progressing satisfactorily. Invercargill, l.a-l Night. 'A man named Wrig, who hail bein

invited to sec. .some new machinery at the Southland Freezing Company's works at liluir, was over a >iiuft wirn a key ill it caught liis coal, and he was carried round two or three times, (lis coat was torn to ribbons, and be-mlrs having an arm broken lie snllVivd oilier injuries. *"!

Cliristclnirel). Lust The inquest. concerning the death of j M. I». j\lcrett, who was fat illy injured in] n motor car accident on February 22nd. | •was conducted Ly .Mr. 11. \V. Bi L ln>|». District Coroner, to nif-M. After I'mly minute*' retirement .the jury returned ;i verdict thai S. K. Men-It n:r' hi- death liv a motor car accident, no hhim ' hrii:</ allaehnldo to anyone, ;usd thai. Dr. Diamond did On- c'n-nin-1 Tile jury added a rider to flie th-it all motorists did not observe the regulations, and i» their opinion were not checked sufficiently by the million-