ACCIDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2601, 30 December 1893, Page 3

ACCIDENTS.

Archibald Wilson fell down at Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, on Tuesday, striking his head on the pavement. . He died from the effects of the injuries received. He was well known as a drover.

A wharf labourer named John Brodey fell down the hold of the freezing hulk at Wellington on Tuesday, and sustained concussion of the brain. He was assisting to load the Maori King with frozen meat from the hulk when the accident happened. Mrs Sullivan, who was injured in the fire at Upper Hutt last week died in the Wellington hospital on Wednesday morning. Quite a number of accidents occurred at Christchurch on Boxing Day. A boy named Arthur Taylor, who was walking along the cliffs at Sumner, fell a distance of 30 feet, sustaining concussion of the brain and severe injuries to the right leg. During a frolic a man named Thomas Jenkins sustained dislocation of the clavicle at the Catholic picnic. A man named Alexander Mitphell was taking a horse out of a trap when the animal bolted and knocked him down, the wheel passing over his head and breaking his jaw. A youth named Anthony Martin jumped from the Sumner tram to pick up a hat, the wheel of a car passing over his left foot which crushed his' toes badly; probably his toes will have to rbe amputated. A boat capsized on the Smnnbr bar, and four young men were thrown into the water. Parties from the shore put off in boats and succeeded iu rescuing the men, but an hour elapsed before animation was restored iu one case.

William Maxwell, a gumdigger, was drowned at Kaipara. He was knocked overboard by the boom. His mate put the boat about, but failed to save him. Eight bottles and two flasks of spirits were on board. One bottle was found empty. The survivor, named Jackson, a gumdigger, says that Maxwell was capable of managing the boat, though he had taken some liquor. Deceased was a native of Edinburgh, and had no relatives in the colony.