ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EXPLOSION OF ACETYLENE GAS,. A YOUNG MAN INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Oamaru, December 7. A. young man. named Charles Moss, .. a plumber,, met'with a serious accident to-day at the Waitaki High School by an; explosion of acetylene gas. The room.in which he was working was greatly damaged, and.Moss suffered a fracture of the skull. He was taken to the hospital; and operated upon, and is now progressing favourably. .

A. MOTHER AND HER CHILD. 1 - ■'-. *■'■ ■ Wairoa, December 7. ' With regard to tho drowning case reported on Saturday at Mangaruhe, tho evidence showed that the child was playing and fell in. The mother pluckily jumped into the flooded river and rescued the body, a quarter of a mile from the scene of the accident. The parents are half-castes, and their grief was so great that they forgot to report the matter to the police, who arrived as the body was about to. be buried. A verdict of accidental death was returned, and a rider drawing attention to tho laxity of the Natives in reporting sudden deaths. ' -•

FATAL WRESTLING BOUT, . Hokitika, December 7. A man named Herbert Jolly, 27 years of ago, who was injured in a wrestling bout about a fortnight ago, succumbed to his injuries today. The injury was'caused by a pipe stem entering his eye, in which it was embedded one and,a hall inches. The unfortunate man had the substance removed on the following day, but it was afterwards found necessary to reniovo the eye, and brain troubles supervened, causing death. A FALL DOWN A HOLD,: A seafaring man named Edward O'Reilly, re-, siding in Dixon Street fell down a vessel's hold at the wharf on Monday evening and was admitted to the hospital yesterday \sufiering from a slight concussion of the'brain and a general shaking up. A CHAPTER OF ACCEOENTS. ' (From Our Special Correspondent.)' • v; Palmerston, December 7. Quite. a' chapter of accidents, has happened at Kairanga recently. \A resident named Mrs. Mallet was driving in -. hor trap, when the horse stumbled; and she was thrown out, tho wheel passing over her, and inflicting severe bruises, from which, however,; she ,'■ is slowly recovering. ■.. v j-'■■■"■ '. : . :.'Leslie a son of Mr. John Collis, was working a drill; when the handle suddenly flow back, striking him pa the arm just abovo I the 1 wrist, and causing.a fracture. . '"'•' A third mishap, occurred to Mr. J. Mathieson, who had been working a "leveller" with two horses. He was unyoking- the animals, when something startled them, and he was knocked down, and the implement was drawn right over him. He received slight concussion of, the brain and .some very severe bruises, from which he is still suffering.. . , . The hospitar authorities advised , last night that, there was no change in the condition "of the young man Chas. MiMiinson who met with, an accident whilst bathing at ■ Paremata on Sunday last, v