ACCIDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1868, 21 March 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS.

Wellington', March 19. At the Upper Hutt Johnny Mclntosh, a well known ex-publican, was knocked down by a horse, and had his shoulder broken. Dr Wilford drove him to his surgery but on the way the horse fell on the precipitous road and both men were thrown out. The doctor was hurt in the arm badly and the unfortunate Mclntosh received further severe injuries to his head. At Otalci a young man named Albion Thomas fractured his left arm in a high jump contest. A serious accident' happened at Otaki last night. Rockets were being fired from the balcony of the Telegraph Hotel when by some mischance one shot down into the street and exploded with great force. Three persons, W. G. Tewaiti, W. M. Muir and Robinson were seriously wounded and a boy and native girl slightly. Others had a very narrow escape. Dunedin, Mar. 19. A fire broke out in a three-roomed tenement in Castle street shortly after 11 o’clock last night, and resulted in Margaret Leary, the sole occupant, being burnt to death before assistance could reach her. The place was a semi-detatched cottage owned by T. Keats. The deceased was about 35 years of age, and was not of temperate habits and there seems little doubt but that she was out drinking last night and on returning home must have gone to the middle room of the three and laid down upon the bed. This room was a bedroom, behind that was the kitchen, and the front room was comfortably furnished as a sitting room. The brigade extinguished the fire before any harm was done to the tenement adjoining the deceased’s. Half of the building was quite gutted and on penetrating into the bedroom a fireman found the body of the woman lying on what seemed to have bean a quantity of straw bedding, the bedstead haying given way under her. The body was shockingly burned, the head and shoulders being completely charred up ; also the legs below the knees. Fragments of a lamp were found in the bedroom and probably by the upsetting of this the fire occurred. The cottage was insured for £IOO in the South British. Invercargill, March 19. A young man named John Crawley, a clerk in the parcels office at the railway station, was drowned to-day. He and some others were out boating when the boat sprang a leak. Crowley struck out for the shore and was drowned. The others clung to -the boat and were saved. A child named Htlooa Elizabeth Jefferson was scalded to death at Caverabani, Dunedin, on Monday. Wanganui, March 18, A Lid named William Higgb.s riding al Waverley Races, near Wanganui, ou Monday, got thrown from the home Teoganui, and was badly hurt. H; arrived here this evening unconscious. A young man named William Broughton Paterson met with a severe accident in the Maugakarelu block on Sunday. He was riding a horse which threw him, aad in fa ling a stake went into his body. A doctor attended him, and he lies in a very precarious condition, and cannot bo moved to his home in Wnogonni.