ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 26, 20 April 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ ♦ {Press Association.'} WANGANUI, April 19. J P. Hashford, aged 27, a . recent arrival from the Old Country, strangled himself in his bedroom j this afternoon. He first tied a i handkerchief round his neck and j then passing a rope from a box over ( the mantlepiece, tied it to the end - of the handkerchief and threw him- J self forward. Deceased recently received the news of the death of ] his wife and had been melancholy. TAIHAPE, This Day. j A railway fireman named A. V. ; Round was brought into the hospital i suffering from fracture of the skull. He Was fixing a shovel at the back of the tender in the vicinity of an overhead bridge at- Mataroa, about 5 a.ni. The driver missed him, and found him lying on his back at the end of the tender. It is assumed he was struck by the bridge. His condition is criti- , cal. It is believed he belongs to Leeston or Christchurch. Information was received in Feilding early yesterday morning that Mr C. Buckman, a well-known resident of Apiti, had been thrown from a horse and had received concussion of the brain. A motor car from Wackerill and Stewart's garage, was dispatched to Apiti, and the injured man conveyed to Palmerston North Hospital. The victim of the accident is in a very critical condition, owing to homorhage having set in. Mr Buckman is an uncle of Miss Rosina Buckmnn, the well-known singer.