ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 76, 1 April 1891, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Bt Tbleqraph.l i united press association. 1 Dunkdin, 31st Maroh. Wm. Campbell, a miner, was killed in the Bendigo mine, Cromwell, on Saturday. He was carrying dynamite in a bucket, and a lighted candle, when an eiplosion occurred, and Campbell was killed. Auckland, 31st Match. The old man William Veitch, who was enticed out of his house and brutally assaulted and robbed on the night of the 23rd March at Wairoa Sonth, died this afternoon. On Monday last, as Veitch appeared to be sinking, hiß depositions were taken before two Justices of the Peace, Captain Crawford and Mr. James Bell, at his honse at Wairoa South, and in the presence of Thomas Fry, alia* Floyd, who had been remanded on ttie oharge of assault andjrobbery. Veitch then identified Fry as the man who assaulted him. When his depositions were taken, Veitch, who was a feeble old man, was in a very bad state. Lie face and chest having been severely' bruised, and the flesh over the eyes swollen and lacerated. A telegram reoeived in town to-day by Inipeotor Broham states that ho died at 4.1S this afternoon. Fry waa well known in the Wairoa South district as a labourer by tho name of " 'J he Mexioan," and has worked for Veitoh for some time. A telegram reoeived by Mr. J. R. Gibbons, a member of our staff, conveys the sad intelligence that two of his cousins, aged 14 and 16, daughters of Mr. H. C. Gillespie, manager of the Thames portion of the New Zealand Kauri Company's business, were drowned in the Kauaeranga River, not far from their father's residence,' yesterday afternoon. It is surmised that they bathing at the time.