ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
■ On Friday Mr McKeague, schoolmaster at the Hinds, had a severe fall from a young horse he was breaking in, but luckily escaped with a few bruises and a severe shaking.
(VBBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
FIELDING, December 16. Henry Coombe, a settler, while leading a bull on the Makino road, yesterday, was attacked by the auimal and killed. WELLINGTON, December 16. The s.s. Kawatiri, which broke down off Cape Farewell, yesterday, was Lowed into harbour by the Diugadee this morning. DUNEDIN, Decembar 18. A young womau named Keating, aged nineteen years, was seriously injured to-Uay at South Dunedin by gun snot wounds. Ie appears that a young man was standing talking to her father and cleaning a gun, which he did not know was loaded. He put a cap on the nipple, aad, pointing it in the direction of the girl—it is not certain he saw her—pulled the trigger, the charge exploded, and the girl received its contents in her head. The sighfe t .of one eye is destroyed, and there is a severe wound by the other eye. She is in a very critical condition, and has been removed to the Hospital.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8359, 19 December 1892, Page 5
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