ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10061, 13 June 1898, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DROWNING ACCIDENT NEAR ASHBURTON.

A man whose identity has not yet been dearly proved, was drowned in the Rangitata hver on Thursday afternoon. Sergeant Barlow went out from Ashburton on Saturday, and just as ho got to the river at the ford known as Jackson's, William Jackson and one or two others had just recovered the |>ody, which had been found nearly a mile below, where a van was in deep water, and two horses were standing on a spit. The nnfortunate man, in attempting to ford the *»ver, had got into trouble, and while saving nj* horses, sacrificed his own life. Amongst the letters found on the body was one addressed from Bath street, Christchurch, to v"i& Hed 8 e « and it is supposed to be from Mw Hedge. The unfortunate man had been travelling south with a kinematograph. The way is now lying at the EaUng railway nation for identification, at which place an Mjourned inquest will be resumed to-day. The Christchurch police have received a telegram stating that the body is that of Mr Herbert Hedge, of Bath street, Christchurch.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, June 11. The blind native burned to death in a whare near Punui was named Karipa. The natives saw the whare burning and hurried to the scene, but all that was left was the *kull of Karipa and a few charred bones. ' The natives are reticent about the affair, and • tome time elapsed before a report was made to the police, who exhumed the body for inquest.

DUNEDIN, June 11. William Magle, aged twenty-five years, *aa killed in the Beaumont Company's mine by a fall of earth.

The Union Company is advised thkt Mr Meiklejohn, chief engineer of the Waikare, while visiting the Corporation electric works »t Melbourne on Thursday night, got caught •othe machinery, and it is feared that he is injured internally, beaidea having bis ribs broken.

On Saturday evening, at Kaiapoi, a horse which had become unmanageable, backed the vehicle to which it was harnessed against a tttmicipal lamp-pillar, and smashed the glass °«* he lantern to a thousand pieces. Mrs Dowling, a resident of New Brighton, Was thr.ro n fiom her cart on Saturday, and HJStahiei a severe cut on the head. She *a« taken to the Christehurch HospitaL