Accidents and Fatalities.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3192, 30 April 1889, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

Auckland, April 29.

A fatal gun accident occurred at Maungakaramea,. about 20 miles from Whangarei, on Saturday. A party of young men were out Bhooting. Mr.William Meade, manager.of the local cheese factory, arid a.fn'ejid of bis from Auckland, were a,riiong the number., Hy some, means, not q'tjjtesle'ari theletter's gunjvent off,

and the : shot lodged ■■ in Moade's groin. Onereport.fltatesthat'Meade was in ' the act of taking the gun from his friend when it accideully J exploded,- Another: account states that by. some mischance Meade's friend, who was walking behind him, got hia-gun at 'full cock, and the weapon was discharged, tore a hole hi Meade's groin, suaaerihg the boue. The unfortunate man died a few hours after. Ho was 25 years of age, and leave's a wife and onejichild. . .■;.-.-. ":

I' On the last voyage of tho Alameda from Auckland to San Francisco, a ,811.001) passenger, Mr W. A. Durlack, a member of the Sydney firm of Uett and Co., fell ovarDoard oif April 4th and was drowned.

Intelligence has been received of tho death, in England,.oi Mr G. P. Osmond, well-known in atbeletic circles in Auckland, lie left for home about eight months ago/having come into possession of property, but diod of consumption. : . Tijiaru, April 29. "With reference to the-supposed drowning case here, a kitten has been found in the harbor which hud been given to the second mate of the barque - Kinolune to takb on board witliliiin.' This leaves ho doubt that the unfprtunato man was'drowned. Westport, April 29. A man named Alexander Troup, engaged atMohikinuiin connection with the erection- of ; the bridge there, was seriously• injured, on Saturday afternoon, by.a tree falling on him, He was brought into the District Hospital on Sunday, when l)x Wright found that he had sustained severe wounds in the head, sovoral fractured ribs, and internal injuries,'