ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 137, 3 November 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FISHER-MAN MISSING. By Telegraph.— Per Press Association. Greymouth, November 2. A young mail, named Richard Mussen, is missing, lie was out fishing his;, evening and had not returned this morni":.. His hal and fishing tackle were found on tiiij rocks.

.A BODS' FOUND. .Wellington, La-;' Night. The iinindeutilicd body of a man an parently about forty years of age, was found to-day amongst some bushes beside the railway track between Ilelmon* and HaywaiM's stations. The man had apparently .been dead three 'or four weeks.

MISHAP TO AN ELECTRICfAN. Hokitil;:i„ Last Nigh;. A. (.inntalougc. a Tour.g e!ec'"ric ; an employed at 111,, Ross GoldlicUs ininwent out prospecting at daylight on Sunday morning taking a slasher to eut a track. H,> arrived at Ross Hosptal at seven a.m. in a fainting conc.ition with his left hand almost severed from tlie wrist caused ibv a mishit of the ten tendons being severed His condition is serious, owi'nsr to the great loss of blood.

A MAIiVELLOUS IO9CAPB. By Telegraph.—Per Press AMoci*ti#n. . Invercargill Last Night. " m Hinckby, a farmer 0 f JSrown's, placed some detonator caps on m tree stump. After a while he forsot about uieiri, and commoßced to eliop the j-liimp. , An explosion followed, whiih broke he head of the axe in two and senousiy damaged Hinckley about the taee and eyes. An operation was performed in the Southland hospital to-day. Jmckley u progressing satisfactorily. Hi ts::g fr oiwst be considered na'r- \ clloils.