ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 313, 28 September 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(BT TELEGKArH—FI'ES* ASSOCIATION.) A BUSHMAN KILLED. Glsborne, September 26. ,A bushman, named Harry Notton,' was killed at Tolaga Bay yesterday, being knocked over a precipice by a falling tree. Deceased was a single man, aged 26. His parents reside in Auckland. INJURED WHILE BUSH-FALLING. Walroa, September 26. T. Anderson, while bush-falling at Wairaka, cut his foot yesterday, almost severing it. He is being brought to the hospital to-day. SUDDEN DEATH. ' ■ A man named Samuel Bolton) 26 years of age, died suddenly at the Hospital at 5.30 yesterday evening. Bolton, who at one timo was an expressman in Wellington, had only arrived from Picton a few days ago. He stayed at a boarding house in Ghuznee Street on Saturday night, and when he did not get up to breakfast yesterday- morning the boardinghouse-keeper went into his room and found him in a serious condition, apparently suffering from a fit.' Dr. Pidgeon was called in, and ho ordered the immediate removal of the man to the Hospital, where ho died at 5.30 p.m. A post-mortem examination is to be made to-day, and an inquest will be held at the Hospital at 4 o'clock this afternoon. _ It ia understood that Bolton was a. patient at the Picton Hospital a short time ago, and that he has relations residing at Brooklyn. FATAL EXPLOSION. Dunsdln, September 27. Thomas Cole, engineer, who was seriously burned as the result of an explosion of benzine on the Moana, at Port Chalmers a few weeks ago; died in the Hospital last night. \ FALL OFF A STACK. Dunedin, September 27. John Aitken, who sustained an injury to the spine recently through falling off a stack at Otokia, died in the Hospital this morning.