ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 436, 19 February 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ '\ IN.THE: / :; M' K; Karahgahake; February '-&K '■■■£ A.-™ me S named; Joseph l Hearne- succumbed this : morning.to fatal .injuries received Ves-' r terday-by a iaUof 70-feet ; dowi/a vpass. in/' tile Waihi mine. His widow' and family are at' present ■on their :way': from' Australia-in-tending, to-join him.here.> ..:•■.,,,>*::* -'•■'.- IN THE CURRENT OF THE WANGANUI. ; ; 'J~S :, (BI TELEGRAPH—r-RESS' ASSOCIATION.) '"''■- '■-' ■;? ';■":■''• : '.V/ahganul,' February 18..'.?. . .Thomas Cooper,.aged 19 years, whose pap.-;: ents reside at Havelockj Was drowned, in, th© river .this .'.morning. ; while.:bathing.:.' .'.While-., swimming near a groyne ho' got ; out mto.-th'e '.'•- current,- which ...was very strong, and ;i . was heard 'to cry out: "I'm. done! I'm ; dbno!" Then he;, sank.; Other bathers ;dired;v but ' were unsuccessf ul'in finding, the.body..V Do- ' ceased was employed' in the Lands Department, and had;'just received 'word;, that he". ' had ; passed the Senior Civil Service Exaniin--atiqn.;.; ■'■■ ' : ; "'■ ;i::; .-:■. - -;■ - --. : '■;,.- ■.; '■'■ . DIED AT BUSINESS;: V■?■" ~ (Br'TELEGRAPH— PRESS. ASSCKIA fION.) ' ■ , : ?: ' ■_, '•'' ■ ' ; I , v .^ e i'February. 18.- ; "; .There, was a sudden -death.at.Pnkerau yea.-■'"'■ tordav, • when Charles ,o'Hagah : expired, pre- '.'. suulably from heart disease,..whilo transact-" '* ing" business in a carpenter's -shop 'Ho was 4 -'■ an ; old the district; having been '' a: settler -for-30 -years. :No.. inquest will be'"' necessary/ .;;"-•-.'■ ■ ..;;■ ;';. •■■-:'...-. ; :- ■'■'-■>'~

THE PENCARROW, EXPLOSION, 'Advice received yesterday by the polico ' states .that tho body of th. man MaYsor.. who .was killed by a fall of earth at Pcncarrow Quarry last week, is expected to be rccoveicd to-da«