ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 23 February 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SAWMILL-HAND DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Grcymouth, February 22. Peter Joseph Laini, a siuvniill-hand, aged 20, was drowned in tin; Paroa. Lagoon while lathing after work on Saturday. A verdict of accidental death was ' returned at the inquest. A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE. Pahiatua, Last Night. I A bankblocks settler named Grubner, j at Maku, near Pougaroa, had a very ! painful experience. He owns a bush j section on tV; .Pu'ketoi ranges. lie was j returning home alone, this evening affcr bush-felling, carrying an uxe in h is hand. | He tripped and fell on the axe, and susI tallied an ugly gash right .across th-; face. He suffered considerably ,tlie wound bleeding copiously. Grubner walked two miles over rough country, an! rode another three miles to the nearest farmhouse, where he fainted. J, He was subsequently conveyed to a pri\at,.i hospital suffering severely from ; loss of blood and on tile verge of collapse. I j SUDDEN DEATH. I , Hamilton, Last Night, j I'rank ITorton,- aged WO, a widower, by 1 occupation a gardener, was found dead , in his room tit a boarding-house this evening. He had complained earlier in ! /.he dm- of feeling unwell, ft is sunposed that he died of heart failure.