ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 168, 3 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BABE'S BODY FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association, Bunedin, Monday. Drainage Board workmen found the body of a ne\V-born infant this morning in one of the city sewers. A YOUNG MAN FATALLY CRUSHED. Greymouth, Monday. A young man named Greenhalgh, 25 years of age, met his death this morning. He was caught in. the winch of the steamer Awahau and his head was crushed. DROWNED WHILE YACHTING. Auckland, Monday. Louis Neale, aged 28, whose parents reside in Melbourne, was drowned on Saturday afternoon. He was yachting with a party on E. C. Bloomfteld's yacht Arika. After landing the ladles at Waihe, the yachtsmen were bathing from the yaqht, which was moored off the shored Neale and another were in the water after the others had returned to the yacht. Neale's companion suddenly discovered he was missing. A ■ diligent search revealed no trace of the missing man, who was a powerful swimmer, but was subject to epileptic fits due to malarial fever contracted during a visit to South Africa. KILLED BY A RUNAWAY. Wellington, Monday. Arthur Kirk, a married man engaged as a wharf laborer, aged 50, who was knocked down by a runaway horse in Willis street on Saturday, and was ; seriously injured, died in the hospital' last night. SHOT WHILE HUNTING. Gisborne, Last Night. Michael McCormack, about 4.0 years old, a roadman at Motu, shot himself in the thigh on Sunday while pig hunting and splintered the bone. A special train brought him to Gisborne at an early hour this morning, and he died at the hospital to-night. A young Maori man name Kawa, engaged in felling bush on the Mold road, about twelve miles from Uruti, had the misfortune to be struck by a falling tree on Saturday afternoon. He was knocked about fifty feet down a gully, and when he was picked up it was thought his back broken, but when the' sufferer, was medically examined it was found that he had his hip out of joint, and a couple of ribs broken, and that he was otherwise much shitken.—Mai!.