ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 53, 20 July 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

I AN INJURED JOCKEY. . By T«lßft»pli—Pre« AMocintion. Christohurch, Last Night. Retter, the jockey who was injured at Riccarton some time ago, and who has lain unconscious at the hospital since, improved wonderfully yesterday, and had' his first return to consciousness. He was able to recognise a relative. FOUND DEAD. Gore, Last Night. A man, apparently about thirty, was found dead by the school children in one of the domains this afternoon. He had evidently been dead some days. Nothing was found on the body to indicate identification. The body was taken to the morgue, and the police are enquiring. FOUND DROWNED. Carterton, Friday. 'The body of the man Frank Fletcher, who was drowned on Elgar's station in the Lower Valley, was found in the Whakawiriwiri creek this morning, some distance from where' the. fatality occurred. The police of Featherstone received telephone advice, and are leaving for tlie scene. Deceased was aged thirty years, and was born at Cambridge. Waikato, where his father resides. "lie had been married only thirteen months.