ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 677, 30 November 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EXHRED.IN THE LOCK-TJP. ' ; (By ■ Telegraph-Press ■'." ■: ■'•• Auckland, November 29; A man named William Henry Miller was arrested at 1.30 p.nv, on Saturday: oh a charge of theft. Ho , was taken to the Nowmarket police station, ' and put in a cell. At 3.10 o'clock he was found lying on the floor, with , his head on tho corner of. a wooden bench. Two doctors were; sent for, but they prononnced life extinct. ■ . ''. ''.■■■ ,:'■■[ ; '• .neaeet drowned. ■:.;■:! , , ChristchurcU, November 29, A narrow escape from. drowning, occurred in Lyttolton Harbour yesterday. lYo.mon who woro ont fishing in a boat weTe capsized, into tho water, and woro soonin a very precarious condition. Jfortnnatoly they - were' observed from Fort Jervois, where the Lyttelton • Navals woro in qemp, and Chief Potty Officer Toomoy pnt ont in a outtcr. Ho, picked up the moro oxlmusted of tho two-mon who would,almost ooitainly have .been drowned if the cutter hnd not soao o»t, and hie unfortnnato follow was taken on board the boat from which, the two had : fallen... , ■•■■■•. :■ ■■■. <-.■;; :; '■■;;■:;.; suicide.;■■:"•;.'■. ..■;.:'■ , . ■.'..■. • .... . Auckland, November 29.' A ,mau named Henry Woodcock, employed on works at the I'ehana railway station, who had been brooding over domestic troubles, committed suicide by drinking spirits of salt.' WINCHES. ■' ■ '■■'■ Invercargill, November 29. At the inquest to-day on tho body of Eobort Guna M'Donohl, who died at the hospital ae tho resnlt of injuries received at a sawmill, ,tho jury .returned a. verdict that M'Donald died aa the result of being struck on: the forehead by the handle of a winch.which he was working, through the log which he was shifting, aooidentally slipping. The following'rider was added: "The jury consider'that, for the safety of employees all sawmill winches should bo provided' with safety check."■'■■■■■ - : , V.. •": DEATH'bT. DROWNING. > Advice . has been received by. Inspector ; - Ellison from the police at Eketirhuna that ■. on Sunday, the twenty-two-months-old son of Wm. Nagle was drowned in a creek at his father's residence at .Tawataia. ;. '-.'..■ -■-■■■ ;