ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7933, 15 December 1909, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Per Press Association AUCKLAND, December 14. , A serious accident occurred to Mr I R. W. Dentith, master of the Hora Hora School, on Saturday. He was out shooting rabbits, when in picking up the gun at his side he discharged iv, the chargei passing through the top of the instep and bursting out: of the sole of the foot towards the toes. Mr Dentith managed to get to the nearest settler's house, about half a mile away, unaided, whence he was conveyed in a waggon to Cambridge, a*nd his injury attended to by 'the local doctor. ■WELLINGTON, December 14. Edward Payne, stevedore, was "struck by a sling of salt while working on a vessel this afternoon,, and tad several ribs fractured^ besides lesser injuries. Herbert Atkinson, aged-eleven years, while playing at Miramar to-day, bad 'one foqt so cut by a mowingv machine [that amputation was necessary. ' * I WAIMATE, December 14. A boy named Wilson, aged fifteen years, residing with his parents at Iho Hunter, fell from a tree 1 yesterday afternoon whilst bird-nesting, and fractured his skull. He remained unconscious, and died this morning".