ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. MOKOIA'S CHIEF OFFICER INJURED. Yesterday while the Mokoia was on - Gaged in disembarking 'Wirth's fcircus at the Taranaki Street Wharf an accident occurred to Hr. W. Il'ender, her chief officer. Ho was engaged in directing operations, when by some means lie was knocked oft' the ship on to the wharf by a skid, attached to a sling, which was being landed, at the time. Ho received -rather severe, injuries. Sir. Baldwin signed on tlio Jlakoia .in - place of Mr. Hender yesterday. TIUJI CONDtCTOR INJURED. ' .A tramcar, which left Lyall Bay at 5.4 p.m.' yesterday, arrived at tho Kilbimio junction a. .couple of minutes later, and tho conductor left tho car to ring, the bell of; the clock, stationed on the roadside. Motor-car iS'o.-M camo-past at the timo and kneoked the conductor doivn. As a result of the-aecident the latter sustained a-fractured rib, and was badly bruised f on the faco and limbs. v A SAD OCCURRENCE. . (Br Telegraph—Press Association.) "Auckland, 'January 16. ' A lad named MaxwelL Carpenter fell off tho oil launch Kawono at Hoki.ingn last evening. A young" man named John Cochrane, single, jumped in 'and endeavoured to effect a fescue, but"' failed,' both being, drowned. • [Maxwell - Carpenter, ' who lost his lifo as stated above, was the son of a wellknown. Wellington resident", Mr. Maxwell M. Carpenter, late .secretary of the Baugitikai' Sawmillers'- Association; and now manager of .the Union Packing Company (of Sydney)-at Eaivene.] .; . f YOUNG WOMAN'S SAD DEATH. New Plymouth, January 16. Miss Turnbull, : aged'2l years, daughter of. the late Mr. Andrew Turiibull; Stipendiary Magistrate, went visiting on Thursday, and wandered away. She was found on. Saturday evening-in the swampy portion'of a paddock oil Smart Road; threo and a half miles from New- Plymouth. She was very weitk, "as-the" result of ex-posure-on- two-bitterly cold' nights, and uied after-midnight on-'Snnday from pneumonia.' ■ No ihfiuest is considered necessary. • '

DROWNING NEAR PIPIKIKI. Wanganui, January 16. A. drowning accident'is reported to 'have.occurred four'miles above Finiriki last week. A man named Graiifield, em-ployed'-on-.a-steamer-fradilis-above I'ipiriki, fell ovei'board, and liis body has not .boon found. : Deceased icuuio' from Onehunga. . • ' - ' ' . ■'? . V-'i, - A NARROW ESCAPE. ' - Christchui-ch,-January 16. An elderly man named. Earl had a miraculous escape from-'being killed on the Papanui Road about midday to-day. It appears that Earl was employed laying telegraph cables alongside the road, and just -qs Iho tfani was npproachng at -a rapid speed ho suddenly picked up his shovel arid walked'across tho line, apparently not having heard the tram. The motorman pulled up with - tlio greatest promptitude, but was -nimble to-stop tho ti'am car in time, tho fender crashing into Earl, and canning him some yards. He was picked up' underneath tho forepart of the car somewhat badly cut about tho face. He was able to get' up oil' tho ground'after a few minutes, arid wanlcd to walk home, evidently having been dazed by .the .shock. ' He was conveyed to tho hospital in the car, and upon examination it was found flint no bones were broken. ' ACCIDENT WHILE RIDING. Te Kuiti, January 16. : Harold. Welch, a hotel-, porter, • aged 22 years, was riding a liorso yesterday, when he turned to shut a paddock gate. David. Xing, his companion, rode on ami returned, finding Welch lying:at. tlio gate' suffering from'.'CoMcussioii'.-'of tho -bfain. Welch is still-unconscious, and was taken by tho express to tho Waikato Hospital this morning. STRYCHNINE POISONING. Auckland, January IG. •The adjourned inquest concerning tho death' of Jlr. J; H. E. .A. Jlyors, who died of-strychnine poisoning ■ at-Devon-port: on. December 5, was concluded at Devonport to-day before.. Jlr. -Gresham, Coroner, and a.iury of Six. After.a retirement of i 0 minutes the jury returned a verdict that death' was 'duo "(o strychnine poisoning, but that there was' 110 evidence to show how,the poison got into deceased's system. •' " - .'; CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. . Auckland, January 16. - : Hilton Sergeant, three .years old, whose par.ents reside at Ponsonby, died to-day as the result of scalds received on Saturday. He fell -into a tub of hot .water, while his father was preparing to batho tho child. ' ;• -' MINER KILLED." ' Walhi, January 16. ■ A-married, man named Andrew Anderson, a shift boss-in, tho Grand Junction mine, was killed this morning by a fall of quart*!-in-one/of thestopos in tho mine.- lie was- alorio at--the-time of the accident, and . miners working further ■along the stope were apprised that something. was wrong by the air being cut off. On investigationi. they came -across the ■ fall of. qu'artzj and. on searching .- found tho .body. Lil'e was cxtinct. . FOUND. DEAD. ON THE ROAD. " Timaru,'January 16. ' John ..Albert, aii;.elderly" man,', aiul a .travelling'saddler"; whs.found: dead,on the road ;ne;u'.. Pleasant.Poiri-t 'yesterday. Tho police .'report': is to the "effect.'that- there were marks of violence. '' : . , FALL FROSI ! A HORSE. ' Invercargill, January 16. Grace Ward Shirley; sixteen-years of age, fell from' a horse at Kianara on Friday 'afternoon,- sustaining a" broken leg. She died in; Southland' Hospital on Sunday 'night' ;, '_' ■ ' '' ■: ..Gwendoline. Pickering, a little girl 51 -years: of .ago,..residing at Jackson . Street! Brooklyn,-.was;playing j n: tlio.Basin Reserve yesterday when she fell and" broke her leg. Sho .was removed: to. tho hospital.