ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 14 June 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG QIEL. , (Bt ISLEOBirU.— BrtCIiL CQHItKSPO[It)H!rr4 •■'.-. ' ■ .......'■ Hastings, Juno 13. Tho accident in. K&raamn Road yesterday, in which Miss Isabel Harding was thrown from her hoiso; terminated £atally^tiluß : morning.- Mise Harding, wio waa oily 22 yoaia of age, accompanied by Mise Nellio M'FarV lane, of Clive Grange, was riding near Horewunga School; when her horse baited. and -, then, swerved, throwing Miss Harding. Sbo was picked up urico«6oious, and taken to, Nurse Nairn's, bnt never recovered, and died from a fractured skull at an early hour this, morning. It was erroneously reported last night that it. was. Miss M'Farlane who wan tho victim, but such was not the case. Deceased was the only daughter of Mr.; Arthur Harding, of Ashhurst, and was ft groat favourite .with everyone, and, a fow weeltß ;ago. was bello 'of the ,ball 'at '■ the. bachelors' ball, Napior. Sho'was on a visit to Miss M'Farlano,Vof CbW Grange, wboa tho accident occurred, and was b* married to Mr. J. 0. M'Farliine. Her, death lias cast quite a gloom over Hastings. :'.•• DRIVINGrACODDENT. ; (BT TBLJW&AMI—IMSS ABSOCLmOHj ;.'-,; ■■■'..■■ Palmorstoh North, Juno il , / While Mr. Dugald Maihason, a woll-knowo farmor, and his widowed ■ tisteiMn-law were driving, yesterday morning, a motor-car frighfo-ned tho pony k tho Square, writ the result, that the trap was bvortnined. Mr. Matiicaon sustained scalp wounds, and Mrs. Mathoson had her left arm broken; Botfc wore: taken to a private hospital The . motorists went , right on without. rendoring assistance.. ■; ':.'■',<■..■':■■-.■'■'}■'■...'■■:'', •,'■'■ ■ A DISTRESSING QUN ACCIDENT. , Ashburton, Juno IL A distressing gun accident,, which ended fatally, occurred at Mitcham yesterday noon, the victim being a lad, 17 years of age, named John Booth, a blacksmith's apprentice. It appears that Booth was m the act of shooting fowls with a brocch-loading gun,, and, anxious to eayo a largo cartridge which waa in the gun,' with the hammers np, ho picked up a stono to hurl at-tho fowie on tho roof of a shod , when the gnn. oocMcirtally exploded, and the full charge entered hie right side. 'The lad waa taken to the Ashburton Hospital, where, ho died at 3 o'clock, thia morning. ,' '.'". . ■' ■ ■'. . .; ' .-:'■ BLASTING ACCIDENT. .; '■■■:■ '.'■■!, ■■■■'■;■ Vvi HokltJha, Juno 12. Charles CJlcrldn, about 40 years.old, was lriljed this afternoon.. Ho was engaged blasting a big log on tho beach, and on a report being heard two other men similarly engaged ran to the scene and found Clorkin with his skull fractured in two plaoos. Death must ihavo been instantaneons. Deceased was well arid favourably known, and although a single man, greatly helped t» support a widowed mother. •.. ■■■■,■■' : ' : .';■■■. ]'~ -founddeadV i ;; ■ / ' ~■■;' .■'■''" ''Auckland, Jnn« 12. Mrs. Eva Horriek, a resident of LichfioW Street, Newton, saw her. eon and hnsband ofi to work yesterday morning.. The 6on, returned to lunch and found his mother apparently aaleop on a sofa. Ho did not attempt to disturb iier. When father and son' returned home at noght, Mrs.'Herrick waa in. the earn© position, dead. ' •■■" : ■': ,' ' ' ' .i '. ' ' ■' ' ■ ''■ / . A SUDDEN DEATH. ' ■■-".■■ .V ; . Roeftori; June 11. , .An oJd ago pensioner, named M'Kinaoa, from Blackwator, dropped dead in a hotel in .town to-day.- .:.:■_ .'.' .'