ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press As&oeiation),
AUCKLAND, October 23
Superintendent Woolley was rather seriously injured on Sunday afternoon. Tho Brigade was out on a false alarm, when Superintendent Woolley slipped on the hose reel, and his foot becoming entangled he was dragged along the street for about ten yards. He sustained some scalp wounds, and was badly shaken. WHANGAREI, October 23. A Maori named Wiki Marepo waji carelessly leaning with his arm on the muzzle of a gun, when his trousers canght the trigger, the charge exploding and stripping off the muscles of his aim.
MASTERTON, October 23. William Apperley, aged twenty-four, was drowned in the Ruamahanga Riyei yesterday. Deceased was out fishing with two companions. The latter left him sitting on the bank and went lower down the stream. Judging by tho time at which deceased's watch stopped, the accident must have occurred a quarter of an hour after his mates left him. The body had been in the water about three hours when recovered. Deceased was a strong swimmer, but it is surmised that he was seized with a fit, to which he was subject, and fell into tho water in a s'tato of insensibility.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12635, 24 October 1905, Page 5
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197ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12635, 24 October 1905, Page 5
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