ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAL FALL FUO.U A 'BI/3. Ily Telegraph.—"Per Tress Association Auckland, February R. A man named Steve Thornton fell from a 'bus, when returning frojn the races at Xgaruawahia on Saturday and xvai killed. A XASTY tU'CIDEX'f. Vv'ailii, February ■?. Fred. Kiusella, engaged in the Waihi received a serious injury to his eye as rccieved a serious injury to his eye as the result of a pointed steel instrument penetrating the eyeball. The injured man, along with his brother, had passed the medical test and intended leaving for Trentham camp this morning. It was his last shift, and the acs><'<ent occurred within half an hour of knockingofi time. FALL FROM A URTDGK Auckland, February 8. The body of a man who has not been identified, about forty years of age, was found beneath the Grafton Tiridge, he having evidently fallen from a height of 100 feet. The name ''(limbic" appears in indelible ink on a linen collar worn by deceased. The body has been identified as that of Frederick George Ounbie, a married man, who resided in rooms in Parnell. DROWXED WTIISI.T FISHING. Gisbome, Last Night. William .Tolin Wood, aged 82, was drowned at Tologa Hay on Saturday night, whilst setting- a net in the river.