ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 12 February 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FARMER INJURED. By Telegraph-Press Association. t< n .., , Gisb °n»'> Yesterday. R- C Rack, a sl.eepfaimer, at Pako»hai, whiU mustering sheep fell with Us horse down » steep hill face and sustained serious-injury to his back. Ha lies in a precarious condition. Black went out with a shepherd at 5 a.m and arranged to meet the latte, at 8 am. at a tlxed point. The shepherd arriviitg at the appointed time and failing to find Black made a search and discoverc] him lying injured at the font of a cliff his horse having evidently lost its footing on a razorback ridge. INQUEST IN WELLINGTON, Wellington, Last Night. At the inquest on William James Martin, the. victim of the Dixon street fire last Friday night, the coroner com- * mented on the fact that Bolton, the occupier of the house, had admitted hi had been smoking in one of the rooms and the fire had apparently started in that room. He returned a verdict that Martin was burned to death, but the evidence was insufficient to show how the fire originated. A DETERMINED SUICIDE.

Christcuurcli, Last Night, At an early hour this morning! John Carter, resident at Colombo Street, found the body of his brother, Robert Bennett Carter, hanging from a branch of a tree in the buck yard. Deceased, who was 40 years of age, was a single man and a carpenter by trade. He had been eccentric in his manner and beliaviour for some time past. At the inouest. a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane. y "~^ MINER SERIOUSLY' INJURED. Dunedin, Last Night. Robert Waddington, a middle-aged man, win admitted to the hospital tonight, suffering from a fractured skull. While he was working in the Kaitaagata mine, a piece of iron flew from a moving truck and hit him.