ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1176, 11 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

* THE TRAGEDY ON KOTUKU. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! Auckland, July 10. Mr. A. M'Kcnzie, second engineer of the collier Kotuku, who had his leg torn off by tho fouling of the anchor on Friday, died last night. MAIL COACH PRECIPITATED. Westport, July 10. Through the horse? shying at a man's coat, on the roadside the mail, coach, with five passengers, was precipitated some fovtv feet down a fide-ling at a spot on the Buller Road, three miles above the Inangahiia Junction, on Saturday. The horses, tho driver, and the fore-car-riage remained on the road. Nobody was hurt, but the coach was damaged. Jhe passengers included .Mrs. Turner and Miss Parkinson (Nelson), Messrs. Allen and Havcock (commercial travellers). Haycock was in another coach accident at Westport four months ago. A TRAVELLER'S TRAGIC DEATH. Christchurch, July 10. A man named Edwin Anderson, aged about 40, employed as a traveller for Gee's Venetian blind works, was admitted to the hospital to-night with-a bullet in the brain. He died at 11.30 p.m. Ho bad been found earlier in the evening where he lived in Stanmore Road holding a revolver with one cartridge discharged. It. is presumed that ill-health affected his mind and caused him to take his life. . THE BUSH-FATALLY PINNED. Whangarei, July 10. Jim M'Kay, aged 15, a married man with one ch'tld, got jammed between a log and a tree in Finlayson's bush at Mangakahia on Saturday afternoon, and survived only an hour. FATALITY ON" S.S. TARAWERA. Napier, July 10. Joseph Snowden, a seaman on the Tarawera, was killed instantaneously as the boat was being berthed at the breakwater this morning. As a rope was running through the chock, the latter broke, and a heavy piece of iron sped through ■ the air and struck Snowden, who was some 15 feet away, a terrific blow-on the right side of the" head, killing him instantly. Deceased, it is believed, belonged to Dunedin. SUICIDE. Dunedin, July 10. Peter Dafforn committed suicide this afternoon at his home in the city by i wounding himself in the abdomen with ia knife. He was seen at half-past one, I and- wa.s found half an hour afterwards (|iiite dead. He was 78 years of age, and an old age pensioner.