Accidents and Fatalities.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 14, 11 October 1907, Page 7

Accidents and Fatalities.

TERRIBLY ;' ;; By Telegraph—Tress;Association.,:.''.': Durieclin, October" 9.",' About 8 o'clock' to-night a; man named Noil Johnson ami' another raa'rj were working hrtho c'ondcnsorS of-thd s.s. Taluno at Port using bonssino and oil .'for tho purpose of cleaning tho machinery. : Some waste accidcnatlly caught; liro, and, as John-;' son was jammed in'a very small spaco' and had lio possible chanco; of escape, his clothes wero, practically off -his body, which was' also terribly, burned. Tho man'was convoyed to'.tlio Dunedin Hospital," but" littlo'hoptsy is' entertained for his recovery. The other man was burned,' but not sevdrelyi ;" Dunedin, October...lO. j Noil Johnston died in tho Dunedin Hospital' shortly after midnight; from injuries sustained in tho'Taluno's condensor, in dry dock in Port Chalmers. Ho was a bachelor, and had boon occasionally employed by the Port Chalmers Corporation. He'formerly;lived in the Hutt, and was fifty-two years of age.'

BODY-RECOVERED.... New Plymouth, October. 10. The body of a lad named: James Dustow, who had been missing sinceSeptember 28, was found in the river near where, he was known to have beon whitobaiting.'. SETTLER'S SUICIDE. New Plymouth, Octobor 10. Information ha's'beon rccoived that George "William Cunningham, a wellknown settler at .Tikorangi, a middleaged man witl) a large family, hanged himself last liislit,'-.. Ho had been in ill-health for a long time.