ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9606, 22 December 1896, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A seven horse wool waggon, the property of Mr D. Eutherford, and driven by Joe Topp, had rather an exciting experience at tho Hopeficld ford on the Upper Waiau river last Thursday. Topp, whose waggon was loaded with .hearing requisites, in attempting to cross the river, which runs very strong at this ford, was carried off the ford into a deep gut. Topp managed to get his team straight' down stream, the whole team swimming for some considerable. di_-\ - tance before he was able to beach his waggon on the same Bide as he entered at, with a ' much damaged cargo. A boy named David Wildey, aged ten, stepped off a tramcar on Saturday last whilst it was in motion and .was knocked down. His foot caught in one of the wheels, but he escaped with a slight injury, though the heel and sole of hia boot were wrenched -' off. _ , *■ „ (PBESB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, December 91'. Mrs Haliburton Johnstone,, of Waikato . Heads, relict of the late Mr Marshall, Wffi drowned while bathing with her husband in the Waikato river. She got into a current, and was being carried to the sea when she was rescued by her husband, and , got out apparently alive, but she died almost immediately. , Wilfred Adamson, aged nine, died from a kick of a horse. DANEVIRI-E, December 21; . A At a Maori football* match ot Makirijun pah, one mile from Danevirke, , ; evening, a player named Mann collided witn ' -. > onother player and reived conatunouot ' the brain,,._ro__ which he, died, an hoar later * WELLINGTON, December 21. An elderly,man, named* John Monaghan, aged sixty years, was found dead in Webb street. Ho suffered from epileptic fits. . Robert Thompson was found dead at Blairlogie station, Wairarapa, on Saturday.