ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 21 August 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. (by telegraph—press association.) <1 INJURED BY A BULLET. Cliristchul'ch, August 20. A serious accident occurred at Rangiora about uoon yesterday. A young man named J. Whitmore, aged twenty-one years, came from the North Island with a friend named liall, and was staying with the latter's uncle Mr. A. Busing. During tho morning the young men were shooting at a target. Whit-' more was standing in the doorway of a shad and Hall was a short distance away to the left. Whitmore fired a shot and stopped quicklv out of tho doorway to ascertain the result." Just at that moment Hall fired, and tho bullet struck Whitmore. in the neck below and behind the left ear, passing through the right eye and shattering tho eyeball. Whitmore was removed to a nursing home, where he was attended by medical men, who removed the eye. Little hope is. entertained of his recovery. Whitmore has no relatives in Now Zealand. SUDDEN DEATH. < Dunedin, August 20. Henry Fordham Taylor, 63 years old, residing'at South East Valley, died suddenly early this morning. Deceased, who was a married man, had been suffering from cold for tlio last fortnight, but did not seek medical aid or take to his bed. KILLED BY A FALLING LOG. ' A telegram received from Pahiatua by Inspector Ellison states that a fanner named James Miller, living at Waikereru, niet with a fatal accident on Wednesday, while crosscutting a log with his brother on.the side if a hill. The log rolled down tho hill and crushod Miller. An inquest, was to liavo boon hold yesterday.

A.single man named Georgo Birch, living at No. 7 Myrtle Crescent, was admitted to tho Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a crushed hand. It appears that Birch who is a machinist in a sawmill, got his hand caught in a machine. Several fingers had to beamputated,