ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 240, 3 July 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. ' LAD KILLED BY A FALL. (BY TELEBKAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . Wanganui, July 2. A fatal accident occurred at Fordell'yesterday, when a, lad, fourteen -years of, ago, a son of Mr. 'Campbell, manager of Burnett's station, was killed by.being thrown from a horse while mustering sheep.' FARMER FOUND. DEAD. '. _ Timaru; July 2. George Robertson, a well-known and highly-respected owner of the Kakahu estate, was found dead.on the roadside near Geraldine this morning. He left l Gpraldine to drivo to' his home last night, and it is surmised he must have taken a fit or been seized with heart failure, causing him to fall from his trap. He'was about 60 years of age, and leaves a grown-up family. FALL FROM A VIADUCT. Taihape, July 2. Word has been received that Ernest' Macdonald fell off the Manganui-o-te-au Viaduct, near Makatoto, this morning, and was killed. DROWNING ACCIDENT. • Blenheim, July 2. The police were notified this morning that a man nariied. Robert Laurenson, aged 35, was drowned off a launch in Pelorus. Sound yesterday at 4 p.m. Search. is being made for the body'. ' FISHING BOAT TRAGEDY. • Glsborno, July 2. Tho fishing boat Jane arrived at Auckland last evening. Captain Must, in a statement giving further particulars of the loss of Christie, tho owhor of tho boat, said that on Juiio 17' Christio packed up his clothes and said he was going ashoro, • Must' told him ho could not, as ho had lost tho dinghy. Christio wanted him to run tho vessel on the .1 rocks. Whilst Must'was rosting, .Christio, 1 having taken all tho tobacco, and turned tho >vatcr cask bung down, disappeared. Must was four days at soa without water. Ho says Christio had been on a drinking bout at Auckland, and during the voyage developed hallucinations.