ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9013, 28 January 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

At Timaru last evening two eailore had a quarrel, and one shot the other in the abdomen with a pistol. The injured man is said to be in a dangerous state. *A. boy abont ten years of age, named George Aitchison, who resided with his parents in Carlyle street, Sydenham, sustbined a fracture of both bones of his left arm last evening by slipping and falling upon the oilcloth in his bedroom. He was taken to the Hospital, where the injury was attended to, and he then went home again, with his parents. v A man named James O'Brien, aged eighty-four, who followed the occupation of a chimney sweep, was found drowned about half-past ten yesterday morning in the tank used for fire extinction purposes, in Victoria etreet. The body was discovered by a young man named Whitley, who gave information to the police, aud Sergeant Wilson had the body removed to the Gladstooe Hotel. The deceased was of stalwart build, and -m&s well known about town. Two years ago* he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the bead with a pistol. - An inquest will be held at halfpast nine this morning. • . ■

(PBBSa ASSOOIATIOH SBLBQBAMS.) PAHIaTUA, January 26.. A man named Richard Flutey was drowned in the Tiraumea river on Friday. He shot a duck and fell -in when trying to recover it. He could not swim. His body has been recovered. OAMARU, January 27. A son, aged'two and a half years, .of Mr J. B. Tayior, a farmer at the Tables, -was drowned on Friday by falling into a well. WESTPORT, January 27. " Mr J. T. Moynihan, the solicitor, who was thrown from hie horse on the 17tb inst., died last night from the effects of, the accident.