ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 516, 25 May 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. t BOATING FATALITY. , |Br medium— tntsi ASHMtitioy i " ' - 1 ' Dunedlh,' May 24. i' . TMa morning thTce jouflg men, who reBide, at Musseiburgh, and whose names are given as Wilson, James Morris, and George * Kempton, went out in a "fla,ttio" on Lake Waihola. The water was rough, with a high i tide, and presently their bolt upset and threw them into tho water They clung t? the side of the craft, which turned over several timeSj and Kempton dmppeired Their plisht nas oWrrcd bv the stitiontnaster {Mr. T. CockbnrnV and with his assistant (Mt. A. Ihrnberrv), ho wont out m a small boat to them. The rpceuers reached tho men just in time to Eire Morns, who was quite exhausted, and held them on ' to the sidoiof the boit until a hrgcr boat arrived. Kempton, whose body has not j«t , been recovered, wag aboat 18 years of age. tj 'CONTACT WITH A LIVE WIRE. I Dunedln, Hay 24. 1 A man named George Price, aged about 25, i was tilled this afternoon, near Willcie's £our- , mill,>at Mosgwl. He was in the employ of tho City Corporation, and it is supposed he somehow came in contact with a live wire. ' Dr. Will, of Greon Island, found that one of / tho hands of deceased wns burned, which gives nso to the surmiso. Pnco is supposed to have come from Tapanui. 1 DYNAMITE CAP EXPLODES. „, ,„ „ . Carterton, Mav 24. Mrs. W. Harris, of Hautotara (Martmbflrongh), met with a serious accident Sho throw somo old papers on the fire, amongst which was a dynamito cap, which exploded, severely injuring 'her left thigh "DESERTED J3Y EVERYONE." 1 Hastings, May 24. An old-ago pensioner named Frederick Thomas Farr, 66 years of ago, a carpenter by trado, disappearedion Friday, and'has not been heard of sinco. Ho left a note, stating i "I feel deserted by everyone, and am going oway anywhere " The nolico accept it as a case of suicido, as Farr had previously made en attempt on his own life,

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