ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 95, 20 October 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Information was sent to Constable McLeod this afternoon that a man named Thomas Jackson, one of the telegraph line construction gang, working near Takapau, was killed shortly after noon to-day. No particulars are to hand, but an inquest will be held this afternoon. [PKESS ASSOCIATION.] WAIPAWA, to-day. A telegraphic linesman named Jackson was accidentally killed at Takapau this afternoon by a pole which he was erecting slipping and falling on him.

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The pathetic story of how a large whale committed, suicide by hurling itself in front of the bows of the White. Star liner Teutonic is told by the Shipping Gazette. The Teutonic was about a hundred miles out of Queenstown westward hound when the whale was sighted on the starboard bow. "I never saw a whale so bent on self-destruction," said Captain Harry Smith. "As he headed directly across our course I ordered the helm to be starboarded to swing the vessel away from him. The whale appeared to be about fifty feet in. length, and only swam faster when he saw us swing; "We struck him squarely, and the starboard bow of the Teutonic was splashed high with blood." -