ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 175, 23 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BOY'S FEET CRUSHED. By Telegraph —Press Asfiociation. Christchurch, Last Night. Shortly, before noon ,to-day a lad named Stevens, aged 15, whose .parents reside at Waltham, had both feet badly crushed by being jambed against the wharf by the Mara'tba. The boy had gone to Lyttelton with'two or three companions and was fishing over- the edge of the wharf. The quartermaster of the Mararoa had warned the boys three or four times, but they had taken no notice, and when the wind swung the vessel against the wharf he was jambed. This is the second accident' of the kind, as eighteen months ago a young man named Griffiths lost a foot through being jambed against the wharf by the Moeraki. It is suggested that the practice v of fishing between the stumps and the wharf should' be dealt with by a har* bor board by-law.

FOUND DEAD. Gisborne, Last Night. ■ Alfred Hall, a single man, aged 49, employed by Mrs. W. Cooper, Wainui, was found dead in his bunk this morning. The deceased complained of pains ia his chest on Saturday, and, thinking theywere due to indigestion, took some medicine. JHe failed to milk the cows on the farm this morning, and found as described. The coroner decided that an inquest was unnecesary on receiving the report. ■■

ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Auckland, Monday. At the inquest on the three-year-old girl Beatrice Alice Forbes, who died as the result of her brain being. pierced by a, pellet from an air-gun discharged , by her nine-year-old brother, at Opotiki, the coroner returned a verdict of acci- ( dental death.

THE'PEA IUFLE AGAIN. Whangarei, Monday. As large numbers, of trippers were disembarking by the, harbor launch .yesterday, a pea rifle owned by Briggs, a local solicitor, was accidentally discharged. flie bullet whizzed close past the head of one of the excursionists and pierced the forearm of Briggs' mother. •

A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Dunedin, Monday. During the Drainage Board's inspection this morning one of the, party's motor cars met with a nasty smash near Glen road. While negotiating the steep side-street the brakes failed to act. The driyer wisely swung: the car to the p . siae of the road, and the car crashed through a fence and hedge into an orchard. Mr. Slinger, the board's engineer, leapt clear and escaped. Mr. Douglass, a member, also jumped from the car, but was caught against ,an iron ring post, and one wheel of the car passed over his leg; no bones were broken, but it was very badly bruised. The inspection was at once abandoned.