Accidents and Fatalities.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1889, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

|Bt Telegraph. I [UNITED PRESS ABBOCIATION.I Jnvercargill, 20th January. David M'Gillivray, aged 12 years, son of a carpenter living near the jetty, lost his life yesterday on the estuary, Borne miles from town. The deceased went out in a sailing boat with a party of young boyß, and waB struck on the head and knocked overboard by the boom, the halyards having given way as the boat was going about. No clear aocount of the occurrence can be got from his companions, but from the faot that the boom, a heavy one. broke on his head, it was probable that the boy was stunned and disabled from an attempt to keep afloat. A son of Mr. Mussen, the Crown Lands Hanger, was thrown into the river at the same time, but ho swam till picked up. M'Gillivray had only recently recovered from severe injuries sustained in a fall throngh a trap-door in the upper floor of a flourmill. The body has not been recovered. Hokitika., 20th January. A minei named Frederick Bingham was killed by foul air in a shaft at Hautau yesterday afternoon. A neighbour's cow had fallen down, and he went to try to get it out, having his foot in a sling. Before reaching the bottom he fainted and fell. Hib body was recovered last night, another man well secured going down. The air was so bad that a candle would not burn 4ft below the surface. Westport, This Day. A lamentable accident ocourred on the Westport Coal Coy.'s incline yesterday afternoon. Charles Ribey, manager in charge of the company's machinery, was walking down the incline when, by some mischance, he was caught by a truck and received suoh injuries that he is not expected to recover.