ACCIDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1963, 31 October 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS.

While riding across country in the Waiau district last Friday night, a man named Wilson was thrown from his horse on to an iron standard of a fence against which his horse collided, A very serious wound in the leg was the result, the standard going almost through the leg. A lad named Dampier-Crossley, 4 years, almost severed his nose from his face at Woodend, N.C., by falling on a piece of barbed wire or a broken bottle. At Leeston on Saturday, Mr S. Early was thrown from his trap on to his head, rendered unconscious, and badly bruised. A passing train frightened the horse he was driving, and the animal reared and fell, breaking both shafts of the vehicle, A child named Morton, 21 months old, was accidentally poisoned at the Waihoa on Saturday. Its mother, Mrs Q-eo. Morton, bought from a pedlar a bottle of mixture for electroplating (consisting of nitrate of silver and potassium,) and put it away in a drawer. The child drank the stuff, and though medical assistance was promptly called in, the result was fatal, she bottle was not labelled “ poison,” A girl named Susan Thomas, years of age, daughter of Mr John Thomas, of Pleasant Point, was killed on the Kerrytown Eoad early on Tuesday morning by falling in front of a Cambridge roller, which passed right over her. She got on to the roller, with another girl, for a ride, and the accident happened when she was getting off. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attached to the driver of the roller, a man named Tobin. A young man named Moßeth had his arm broken on Saturday morning at Mr Mee’s farm-, Pleasant Point, through the horse he was riding rearing and coming down on him. John Crawford, a shoemaker at Pleasant Point, met with a very serious accident on Saturday afternoon. While engaged in sewing, the thread he was pulling broke, and the point of an awl he held in his hand went into his eye. It is feared that the injury will result in loss of sight of the eye. A shocking accident occurred on Monday afternoon on the Mew Zealand Pine Company’s bush tramway at Woodend, Southland. A small locomotive was running up the incline when it left the rails and capsized, Of the four men who were on three escaped with slight injuries, but the driver, James Ladbrook, was killed on the spot. He fell against a log and the starting bar of the engine struck him on the mouth, penetrating his head so far as almost to seyer it from the body. Deceased leaves a widow and three children. At the inquest the verdict was accidental death. It came out in evidence that the disaster occurred at a curve, and that the men had so much work to do every day, after which they were free, and it had been the practice to hurry and push the engine and get away early. The accident occurred at 12.30 p.m., and if nothing had occurred work wouM have been done in about an hour. Mr Conyers, the engineer of the company, deposed that the road was in fair order, and the locomotive was travelling too fast.