ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A GUN FATALITY. [press association. l AUCKLAND.. ;->-dny. • Chas. Riches, aged 27. enijil-.-yid at Sylvia Park, Otahulin, was :vc!dentally killed vn Sunday. Me 1.-.M the gun down on a dog kennel, v. i:;:e he released the dttg. He tl;.i pin led tho. gun towards him. The '.Jigger became, caught, and Riches, received the full' charge in the, stomach, death ensuing before the doctor arrived. Riches arrived from Lancashire last November. i ■ • -■,*■■ A FATALITY AT PONGAROA. [OWN COBBEBPONDENT.} PONGAROA, to-day. Percy Devery, about 19 years, was riding along Aohanga Road at 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon, with a mate named 1 Wooten, when his -horse fell,_ Wooten's horse falling orier . him. Devery received injuries from which he died at mignight. Deceased was an orphan boy, and was licensed out to Mr Newman, of Waione, by the Eduaction Department* .■ At Rangiofa.on Saturday afternoon an unmarried, middle-aged \ man, named Frank Coates, met with ah accident, which proved fatal. He "was topping a pine tree, about 20 feet from the ground, when, a gust of wind unexpectedly broke the top off. and he fell beneath to tho foot of the tree. He fell on his thigh, smashing it from the, groin to the knee. Medical men attended the unfortunate man, but his leg had to. be amputated. . _ ''f .; ■ -, . ■. ■ A ma,n named John Ernest Wood- i rough was found in a dying condition on the top of Port Hills.)"' Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, and died shortly afterwards. He had set out earlier in the day foi'a walk on the hills. ; ;: .'-/... ■:.;.: ,'c,' ... ' * ==== .' \