ACCIDENTS: AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 9

ACCIDENTS: AND FATALITIES

TELEGRAPH ..EMPLOYEE INJURED, . (by TELEGiiArn.—rr.Esa assocution.)

• Auckland, May 11. To-day a serious accident ,befel an employee of the Telegraph Department named Iloland , Malcolm. He was fixing a wire on a temporary pole, at tho railway/'wharf, and when at tho . toji of tho pole .it , suddenly gave,,-way, .'precipitating Maloolm hoavily to. tho .wharf. Dr. Aubin was hastily summoned, and disoovored that! lilalcolm's. right arm''was broken'just- below ; tho elbow, wiiile otner sbvero injuries wero sustained;

; !! FALL I-'HOM A TRAP. ! Ghristchuroh, May 11. .. An r inquest was held this afternoon 011 the body of tho man, Turloy,-. who was found on tho_ road ..outside Strathmoro Hospital on Friday afternoon suffering, from injuries to his: head, and. died in tho Christchurch Hospital yesterday. Investigations have shown that Turley fell from a trap.; The jury returned a .verdict that tho deceased met his/death through injuries receive;! by a fall from a trap while in, a state of intoxication. v

SUDDEN DEATH IN AUCKLAND. ; JURY'S VERDICT AND RIDER. . Auckland, May 11. At tho inquest to-day. on tho , doath of William Amos, a. Wellington resident," who died-'suddenly in ■ Queen Street ■ yesterday, evidenco was givon. that deceased had endeavoured to obtain accommodation at various hotels in Onehunga and.tho'city, biit was' refused in every case 'on account of his' emaciated appearance. The jury in, returning a verdict of death from natural causes Added a rider that the authorities he requested to take.; action against those hotolkcopors who had refused, for insufficient reasons, to accommodate deceased. •

ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. . Wanganui, May 11. Tho body, of-Matthew Connor, a well-known settler, wild'was drowned ill the rivci- seventeen miles above "Wanganui,- on October 16, 1907, .. was, found floating opposite. Castleeliff yesterday. At the inquest to-day a vordict pf accidental drowning was returned. : 'PATAL RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT.. , (BY TETjEGRAPII.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) . Hastings, May 11. • An accident, with fatal results, occurred on Saturday afternoon .to a man named Michael Kirby, a butcher, residing in Victoria Road. Kirby, it appears, slipped on tho linoleum, and fell, fracturing both bones' of tho left leg below the knee. On tho advice of Dr. M'Kibbin, who-was 1 summoned, the injured man was removed to tho Napier Hospital; Drs. W. W.-Moore and Brett attended to " r the sufferer at the institution, and administered chloroform. Kirby, while under the influence of tho anaesthetio, collapsed, ■ and within half an hour was dead. Tho deceased was. a married man, 38 years! of ago. An inquest will'be held. The body of Antony do Gregorio, who was drowned as the result of a boating accident off Terawhiti on Wednesday, was found on tho beach at Oterangi lSav yesterday morning. It was, taken to the morguo. An inquest will bo held this morning. Mr. .Tamos Has ton', the well-known Wairarapa gbntlcnian rider, is at present laid up in a privato hospital at Wellington, writes our Wairarapa correspondent, owing to an injury received by him while riding Lucretius in a race on tho second day at tho Marlborough Meeting. It appears that during tho race a stone was east up by one of the horses in front of Lucretius, and struck Mr. Haxton with great forco in the eye, which was rendered wholly blind. Tho unfortnnato rider was taken to Wellington, where ho was placed' in a hospital. Tho wound is understood'to bo somowhat (serious.