ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

:'■ .SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT. .', (By Telcsraph.—Special Corresponoentl Masterton, January .23. ■ News of a serious gun accident reached! Masterton from Glenburn, on the Easti Coast, to-night. It appears from infor-, mation available that Mr. G. Turner waa. hanging a loaded gun* on the wall oil a room when it exploded and he received< the contents in the thigh. An ambulance, has been sent out to bring him to theij Masterton Hospital. •' •"- •■

A STEERAGE PASSENGER'S DEATHS " (By Telecraph —Press Association.!^

' Invercarglll, January 23. - A s;£erage passenger by the WarrimotfJ named A. Rush, who joined the steamer 1 at Hobart, was found on arrival at .the. Bluff to be in a state of collapse. He had taken no food on the voyage,- and'j was too far gone to 'give an account of himself. Before he could be brought tof the hospital he died. '

DEOWNED WHILE BATHING. Auckland, January 23. Arthur John Blackhouse, a young man, was bathing with.two others in a creek at Taupaki, when he suddenly sank, me body'was recovered, but life was extinct.

GIEL THROWN.FEOM A HOESE. Auckland, January 23. '■' Elsie Howe, fourteen years of siding at Avondale was; throwni ■. frqpi a horse and sustained a fractured skull., She is now in the hospital m a critical condition, "',-

KNOCKED. DOWN BY-CAB. ..''.-" Dunedin, January 23. Margaret Smith, an elderly woman,' was knocked down by a Kaikorai tram and sustained severe injuries. There.is.-every chance of her, recovery. . ■■ | -SUDDEN DEATH. /•' ■.■■'.'- ,' i. y Nelson, January: 23;_ ■ji middle-aged' man' named Francis. .John Sparks,.'a remittance man, dropped dead in his garden this morning,' foU lowing an epileptic stroke a week ago. . SUICIDE. Christchurch, January 23. The police were informed this afternpott that Mr. Arthur Calcott, who has been for some years, an officer of the Agricultural Department, and who has re. cent.lv been acting as chief clerk of me Christchurch office e£ the Department, had'died.suddenly at his residence, Dm> ham Street, St.. Albans, under_ circum. stances suggesting,suicide.- Jr. faoulburn. Gibson was called in by Mr. Calcot s family, but could do nothing, Mr. Calcott;expirine shortly after the doctors arrival. ■An inquest was held this evening, when a .verdict of suicide while'of unsound mind, was returned.