ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 8990, 1 January 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A youth named George Outsell, aged nineteen, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital yesterday suffering from an injury to his right arm. He had been climbing a tree at Addington when he slipped, and his arm was caught in a fork of the tree.

(PRESS ASSOCIATIOX TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, December 3L A young l man named James Dunu was fatally wounded on Saturday at Coromandel. Four members of the Rifle Club were practising ball-firing. Boswell had his gun at full cock, just ready to fire.vwhea Dunn asked him for a cartridge. Boswell turned to give the cartridge, holding his rifle in his left band. The charge exploded, the ball striking Dunn iv the right side. He died in the Hospital two hours later. NAPIER, December 31.

A young married man named William Finlayson was seriously injured at the Spit on Saturday afternoon. He was endeavouring to jamb a wheel with a block of wood when the truck to which he was clinging collided with a sling, which swung round and struck him on the head. He was taken to the Hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition. OAMARU, December 31. The body of a young man named Robert Carson was found in the Kakanui river on Sunday. He had gone into a deep part of the river to bathe and was drowned.