ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ .-; ■■ ■ ;,„■..■:, ; <: ;■-, ~ .■ r SOME PATHOS. , . ■ ■ (By Tolccrap'b.—l'reas Association.) ' ■'. Thanios, August 20. A man named Robert M'Calluni, 33 years of age, employed in connection with -dredging operations on v thoPittko, foil off the steamship' Albany this morning and was drowned. Deceased was a native of Scotland, ; and had just sent money Home to bring out his wife and two children to this country. So far the body has not been recovered. DEATH BY DROWNING.. ..[."' .■.''• Christchurch, August 2p. An inquest was held, to-day on tho bodyof Lewis .-Albert Elerig, found in the River Avon yesterday. A verdict of death by drowning was returned, thero being no'evidence to show how he got into the water. Tho lato Mr, Elerig was well known' throughouj tho Dominion in years gone by 'as a traveller for'the . firm, of Skc'lton,/ FrosfcicU and Co., with which ,hb has. been connected for a very .long' tiriio. . The : deceased •' gentleman was also identifie! very intimately with both craft and capitular Masonry, being an old member of .the- Canterbury Lodge, 1048, and also of several' of the Royal Arch Chapters/etc. ■ • '■'■• ■ . ■ ' '•■.•■ .■'■': A FALL, A PIG, AND' A MAN. v : Ashburtoh, Aiigust 20. f 'During tho progress of a clearing sale 'at :-Hinds.yesterday; a farmer named ■' Loim Hansen , slipped' off a straw stack in 'tho/ pig yard, and just as ho reached the ground a pig cannoned against his right leg, , fracturingit above tho knee. , . ■■'..'■ :. •'-/ ' . SUICIDE IN.A BATH. .■'■'.• .. . . Dunedin, August 20 .' ' A .case , of suicide at tho Benevolent .Institution occurred, this-afternoon, an inmate named Timothy Hagan drowning himself in the bath. It is the custom of inmates to have a bath on Fridays, and deceased in-' formed a nurse at 2.30. that ho would have his'bath' at 8 p.m.,' but, half an'hour later, -lie was found in the bath quite dead, the door having to ; be forced open..- Deceased had been a sufferer frota, cancer. He was ,admitted' to tho: home oh ■. June 22. \ " 'WOMAN DROWNED, IN THE STJRF., ;\'-. ; ;.-:/■ . . . ipunetlln, August 20. .;. Emma Smith,; wife of> Thomas Richard railway ' porter, ■ residing .. at ' North '.East, Valley, lost...her life by: drowning in the ■..■■surf ""at St. -dair , . to-day , : •■....'. A .woman named' ; Mrs. ; Finlay-son saw deceased sitting on "a , seat) and' then heard ■ a scream, 1 and saw deceased floating'in the water.. '.By. .the ,time assistance-had been procured,' tho body had disappeared, , 'but it was subsequently

recovered. .Deceased .had : . been ■)suffering from insomnia , for some time. Wheu ' sho left-'homo this morning sho had a sis' weeks', old child, with her,' but the, infant has not been found so far. ~.'-. .. ; :■ . , • . : ■: .; JUMPED INTO THE RIVER; ;,; ■ : .:■-'■.•'•':■■'■ V : Wangahui, August 20. A.labourer named Oscar,Olsen;committed suicide this evening by.'jumping off tho fcowii. bridge into tho;river.. He, had been drinking about; tho .town.; ■ :' ■ ■;;■;•'; ■A man named George. Peters, 59' years of. age, residing at Pahiatua, was knocked down by a.horse bolting yesterdayi 1 and■ had his leg , broken. He was removed to'the Wellington, Hospital for treatment. ' :".■■■■'' '