ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

'.' GISBORNE COACH OVERTURNED. ' Cisborns, December'2o. A coaching accident on tho Waimata Road last evening.resulted in Bissett's coach being smashed to pieces. The horses bolted, aha at.Dcvil's Elbow the coach collided,with tho bank. The; occupants were all. thrown, out, and tho coach was smashed. John Perry,, a sheep farmer, pno of tho passengers', sustained three. broken ribs, and had. his face cut about. .' Tho . others . were • sover'ely shaken. ".' / ,'■•','. '..'," : ".'■■'/ SUICIDE. ■ • ■■:-':, Hawera, December 20.-. •: • Matthew Barrett, single,-about 40; drowned himself in a dam yesterday. This is tho third time deceased attempted suicide. '','.• J. ' ■ '• BOY'S BODY FOUND, .:;:".'.,;'; :..;,'..'Lwanganul, December, 20. ; . : This; afternoon the body of; a boy named Frank Corrigan,--' aged ..7J- years, ; was found floating in tho Wangahui River. , Tho : boy had been missing from.bomb since Monday morning, when he was seen playing on the river bank. .• ; SUPPOSED PHOSPHOROUS POISONING'! ■';!'' Auckland, December 21. A singlo girl, 23 years of age, named Maud Roid, was admitted to ' tho hospital last Sunday, apparently suffering from phosphorous poisoning, caused by eating' match heads. She lingered .until'.early this .morning, when she died. Her father is > bushman, living at Coromandcl, and her'mother resides at Otorohaiiga..' ' ;•' \ .'-..■."..-".!'; DROWNING ACCIDENT;'' .' .., Picton,'December 21. A singlo man named Thomas Jobson, aged thirty years, fell off a motor launch in the Sounds late last night, and was drowned. RABBITER FOUND-DEAD.-' ; Dunedin,, December 22....'. Advico has boon rocciyed frbm.Clydo .to the effect that Thomas Ryan,'.'a rabbitor, 25 years of ago, was found dead in a hut noar Clydo yesterday. . ~'.,,.