ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2107, 4 October 1890, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Gisborne, Ocfc. 2. Captain James Watson, of Havelock, near Napier, arrived yesterday to yisit his son-in-law, John Francis, who lies in a precarious state in the hospital, the result of an accident on Sunday, when he was thrown from a horse and received concussion of the brain. He went to stay at the house ®f a friend, and in the evening was found sitting in a chair, dead. He was about 45 years of age. Masteston, Oct. 2.

A man named William Cameron, 22 years of age, committed suicide last night by taking strychnine. Deceased was highly respected and no cause can be assigned beyond that, as he said himself, he was tired ot life. Wellington, Oct. 1. The dead body of a man was found at the Kopurangt railway station, near Masterton, to-day. Oct. 2. Gerrard, the man who was injured on board the Australia, is in good spirits, but is completely paralysed from the middle of the body downwards.

The body of a middle-aged man was taken out of the harbor this afternoon. Apparently it had been in the water some time. It has been identified as that of Thomas Whitworth, a blacksmith, a resident of Douglas Wallace street, who had been missing for a fortnight. Christchurch, Oct. I.

Mr G. B. Woodman, well-known in howling and hunting circles, died today. An old man named Frederick Seelen, who has been paralysed for years, was admitted into the hospital this morning suffering from the effects of arsenic poisoning. He died about noon. An old man named Daniel Matthews, aged 70 years, died suddenly at Hanmer Plains, yesterday. Hokitika, Oct. 1.

A fatal acciddent occurred at Woodstock this morning when the wellknown miner, William Pearson, was killed, and his brother Thomas seriously injured. The latter was at the face and deceased was timbering a tunnel. It is thought that in driving home the laths struck the cap piece and the roof caved in from the surface. Thomas Pearson got jammed in the slabs and wash dirt, saw daylight above, called out and succeeded in attracting the notice of his son and was got out alive though considerably crushed. William Pearson was brought to the surface an hour or two afterwards quite dead, his breast bone and ribs on the left side being crushed in. Dunedin, Oct. 2.

A man named Charles Evans was found dead at Milton yesterday under peculiar circumstances. Deceased, who was 67 years of age, occupied a farm on Table Hill. He had been engaged in cutting a gorse hedge on his farm, and it is supposed he must have subsequently set fire to the gorse and have been caught in the flames as when found he was badly burned.