ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4503, 22 August 1893, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

The Bush Advocate of Saturday has the following:—A man named Herbert White, who was working in the Tamaki Company's bush, met with b shocking accident yesterday, It appears that he and another man were the kr_aotira, and were affile time ci the accident about four miles in tie bash. They had ' braked' a eonple of trollies down an incline, and a third followed. This one did not pull up so well aa expected, and struck against the others at the bottom of tbe incline with sufficient forcejaknook a log off. The two men inSfeavoured with the 1 aid of a jack, to replace tbe log on the truck, and while doing so tbeloe snddenlyswerved. White endeavoured to get oat of tbe way, but turned to look at his mats, The delay was fatal, As the log swung round it struck White on the sboulder,knocked him down, and then rolled on lo him, • The poor fellow was pinned to the . ground, and bis mate had to jack tho log off him, As soon as assistance . could bo procured White was brought into the mill and thence to town by trajn apd made as comfortable as

possible at the Ulnb Hotel, Dr Macallan advised his removal to the hospital, and he was aent thore by this morning's train, His spine is broken, and his case is of the gravest kind. The poor fellow, who, by the way, has only just resumed woik after recovering from a broken ankle received on the football ground, bore his suDerings with tho utmost fortitude. ' .' *■

(By Telegraph,—Press Association,) ' CnmsTOHUKOii, August 21. James Hogg, boat dinnhouso ; keeper was lound drowned ir. the Avon this morning. He had been a little queer in manner lately, but there had been no cause for alarm. He left his house at 7 o'clock, and the finding of his clothes on the bank led to the discovery of tho body in the water.