ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

,' '..'., '..'—- ——«-—— ~ ; ; TWO DROWNING ACCIDENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' ';. ■ ; . ■■■ ./.... Cißbbrno, September ,7. ' So far no. trace' has been found of the bodies of- either oftho two men drowned in the tributaries of the Waihuka River .yesterday. Thomas Robinjson was crossing Gold Creek: fbrd ; when his. lorse stumbled,' and the rider was thrown into tho water, being carried instantly into ; the- flooded .-riveronly .two; cnains. distant. •-■:■.'. The second accident occurred at a sttiall unbridged creek near, the Waihuka homestead. Dudley At'Kenzio, undertook to driv.o p. cart across, the ford when his; driver expressed, the : opinion that it was unsafe to do so. Tho vehicle capsized, and, he was swept into ..the. river, forty yards away. The unfortunate man was weighted with air oilskin and gumbbots, and had a poor chance to escapoy as tho stream was running with great, velocity.'...'. M'Kenzio , was... aged . .25. With .his brother he_ had .occupied the Ototo grazing run,: and xvith the presence of 600 men on tho railway, works in the vicinity he had worked up a profitable business •in supplying meat.- Ho belonged to a -wellknown Hawke's Bay family. ■

■ BODY OF A CHILD.: ' .Auckland, September 7. Mr. Jorvis Wright, a resident of Claudo Koad, Epsom, .while digging in his-garden, discovered the romains of a newly-born malo child in a decomposed state. There are indications that the bodyhad been buried fot several days., Tho polico arc endeavouring to trace the parontago of'tho child. ' MAN FALLS OVER A PRECIPICE. . Dunadin, September 7. , Tho Qucenstown- correspondent of tho "Daily Times" states that a .North Island resident, named Michael Ryan, who has been in the Lakes ; District for- tho last four months, fell olf a plpo line at Arthur's Point ou Sunday,, iyi_d,went over a precipice, being killed. Ho was looking over, tho property at tho, time of tho accident.