ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
On Saturday Mr John Winks, of Normanby, Taranaki, went into a paddock with one of his sons to take out some steers. They were rushed by a stallion kept in the paddock, and ths elder Winks was seized by the thigh, torn off his horse, and shaken by the stallion until the son came to his rescue and drove the vicious brute off. Mr Winks had to be sent to the Hawera Hospital to have his injuries attended to.
j A labouring man, named.James Warner was admitted to tha' As*hburton Hospital yesterday morninggwffering from a serious injury to one of his legs. . (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEIJMJBAMS.) DUNEDIN, July 5. lne inquest waa continued to-day touching the death of the three men killed by a "Up ma cutting at Inch Valley limekilns. J. G. Service. who had bean working in the : cutting, said he saw a slight; trickle of earth ' in the morning, and had pointed it out to the tbreo men, but they did not seem to think anything of it. After dinner Murray remarked about the crack, but did not seem alarmed, and went on'-worl-ing: Lookiri" up lie saw ths bank had shifted about an inch. Then the whole thing began to move and a straight slip came down. The in- , quest was adjourned.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11010, 6 July 1901, Page 7
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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11010, 6 July 1901, Page 7
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