ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 96, 20 May 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A SHOOTING FATALITV. . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. A young man named Holes, eon of a carpenter residing at lirey Lynn, was out shooting at Port Albert with two others mimed Belcher and Worker, when Belcher's gun discharged accidentally. The charge catered Boles' side. Boles was sent in a launch to the Wairoa Hospital. He died there. A BOY DROWNED. Auckland, May 10. Cornelius Driscoll, u farmer, when coming into Te Arolia, gave his two little children a ride part of the way and sent them back oil foot. They stopped to play on a bridge, and the boy (■who was live yearn of age) fell into a stream and was drowned. A RAILWAY FATALITY. ' Bluff, Wednesday. A fatal railway accident occurred here last night. A* shunter going to the Ocean Beach Freezing Works' ran into three men named Wm. Fyfc. John Pratt and John Henderson, who were walking to the works along the line. Fvfe was so badly injured that lie died shortly after, Deceased was a married man with a wife and several children. Pratt had a leg broken but Henderson escaped with a few bruises. Fyfe and Henderson were wool olusseis and Pratt an agent for a rabbit merchant. DKATII FROM SHOCK. Duucdin, Wednesday. Wm. Campion, 42 years of age, jumped over a bank and dislocated his' knee whilst suffering from the elYeet of dc--1 lirium tremens. A little chloroform was administered, but the patient did not ; take it well and wan allowed to come out of its influence. The knee was set ' without mi air,ivMUrtit\ but Hie man died shortly afterwards, it is supposed ! from shock. ■ A FARMER INJURED. Mr. Jos. lloulnhan, of Kent road, was' admitted into the Hospital last Monday, suffering from a broken jaw bone and lacerated face, the result of a milk-eart capsizing while on the way to the factory.