ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 151, 22 July 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ DKATII IXDER AX ANAESTHETIC. 3y Telegraph.--I'resa Aas-ocUOon. L'hristi-lmi-L-h, Last Xighl. (leorgo Wolfe, 14 years, of age, died ■ ut the hospital lu-day while undergoing ; mi ii|ienition. -liu was admitted this morning sull'uring from a growth in the throat and nose. ami was operated on. Ktliyl-chlorate was administered, and tTie' operation performed, but the luil never rallied. Restorative measures well' tried Iml without HUCCeSS. TIMMKR HAND IX.irnjCD. Yesterday a worker named Tom Lee. employed at {he Xc w Plymouth timber yards, Eltlmui, had the misfortune to get Itis leg broken below the thigh through some timber falling across, his legs. Mr. Madden, manager of the yards, promptly secured assistance anil the sull'erer was conveved home where he was attended by 'l)r. Harrison.— Argus. A KORDINT! FATALITY. The llawera Star gives partieulars of I the drowning of George Bulhrad, single, a fanner residing at Vaihi, in the Waingongoro river, near the pipe bridge, on Tuesday. It appears that the deceased with his brother, Mr. T. Holland, . wue fording tlic river at llryaut's crossing in a spring dray, when hv some , mischance it capsized, pinning the occn- ] pants underneath. As there was a good i fresh on the horse and drav were carried down stream. Mr. T. Holland managed to get out in an exhausted state, but the brother was washed awav with the cart. - '