ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 55, 30 March 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CONTRACTOR KILLKD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, .Monday. Kin -t 11. lrviiif, bu-li coiilractoi. I was killed while tripping a dam a I Owcra. I-'IICM) IfROWNKU. I'alnieiHtoii N.. Monday. The bodv of a mail lias been found on Hi.- beach below ill.' esplanade. I'roiu letters in a pocket deceased is believed to be W. V. Iluviliind. late ]."»fter llastie'.s Hotel, rVilding, and llodging's ll'il'-l, bower Hull. The body Im.l hi'.-n in the water lor about three weeks, Deceased',* t'Onl pockets were full of stones.

l.NQl'lttT. ! Wellington, Last Nijilit. At an ini|iiest on .lames I'leming, who was lost from the .steamer .Maori m Wellington harbor yesterday, evidence showed t'lmt deeeased' war a single man, aged ill, employed as a clerk by the Hunk of New Zealand, lie was under transfer to Wellington, where he idioiild have reported himself on .March 20th. but had not done so. It was slated that deceased was under the inllnence of liipior I when he joined the .Maori at Lytleltuii. [ A din 11 and two bank slips found on I deceased i-hould not have been in iliis possession unless they were duplicate*:. It was not known if deceased's books were correct. Dr. Mi-Arthur. S.M., found deceased came to his death through drowning by falling from the .Maori, and thill, everything po-i-ible had been done to rescue him.

THERMAL, DANCER*. Auckland. Last Night. | A serious accident happened to Mr. Rollet. of Wellington, at Tokaanu on Saturday evening. He wa- on his way to a hot bath by himself, when, gelling on the wrong tiiick hi the darkness, he lell into one of the large boiling pools and was severely scalded. Fortunately sonic friends we're close by and rescued him. and conveyed him to the hotel. w'liciv a visiting' doctor attended to his injuries.