ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SADDLER FOUND DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association. TIMARU, Last Night. John Albert, an elderly man, a travelling saddler, was found dead on the road, near Pleasant Point, yesterday. The police report that no marks of violence were visible. " I MAN KILLED AT WAIHI. By Telegraph—Press Association. WAIHI, Last Night. A married man named Andrew Anderson, shift boss in the Grand Junction mine, was killed this morning by a fr.ll of quartz in one of the stopes of the mine. He was alone at the time of the accident. Miners working further along* the stope were apprised that something had happened by the air being cut off. On investigation they came across the fall of and oil searching found the body, of deceased.. Life was extinct. DEATH FROM SCALDS. By Telegravh—Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Last Night. Hilton Sergeant, three years of age, whose parents reside in Ponsonby, died to-day as the result of scalds, re-; ceived on Saturday. He fell into a' tub of hot water, while his father was preparing a bath for tin; child. DEATH OF'A TEACHER. / i By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Miss Harriet Starkiss, head mistress'of the Normal School, died yesterday. She had been over twenty years'in the service of the North Canterbury Education Board. ''* , FALL FROM A HORSE. By Telegraph — Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Grace Maud Shirley, 16 years of age,-fell from a horse at Niagara on Friday afternoon j sustaining a broken leg. She died in the Southland hospital on Sunday. SAD DROWNING FATALITY; ; By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A lad named Maxwell, a carpenter, Ml off the oil launch "Rawcne" at Liokianga, last evening. A young man named John Cochran, single, jumped in. to endeavour., to > effect a rescue, hut failed, both be'ihgf drowned. \ CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association. TE KIIITI, Last Night. Harold Welch, an hotel porter, aged 22 years, was riding a horse yesterday, when he turned to shut a paddock gate. David King, his companion, rode on and returned, finding Welch. lying at the gate suffering from concussion of the brain. Welch is still unconscious, and was taken by the express to the Waikato hospital this morning. .-.-:■•; WANGANUI RIVER ACCIDENT. By Telegraph — Press Association. WANGANUI, Last Night. A drowning accident is reported to have occurred four miles above Pipiriki last week. A man named Granfield, employed on a steamer trading I above Pipiriki, fell overboard, and his body has not been found. Deceased came from Onehuhga.

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. By Telegraph — Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. An elderly man named Earl, had a miraculous escape fitom being killed on the Papanui Road about midday to-day. It appears that Earl was engaged laying telegraph cables along a side road, and just as a tram was approaching at a rapid speed he suddenly picked up his shovel and walked across the line, apparently not having heard the tram. The 'motofman pulled up with the greatest possible promptitude, but was unable to stop the car in time, the fender crashing into Earl, carrying him some yards. He was picked up underneath the fore part of the car somewhat badly cut about the face. He was able to get up off the ground after a few minutes, and wanted to walk home, evidently having been dazed by the shock. He was conveyed to the hospital in a car, and upon examination it was found that no bones were broken.