ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1894, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

IBy Telegraph.. ( Our Own Correspondent. ) Grkytown Noi>tu. This Day. On Satnrday evening Mrs. Boy, wifo of Dr. Boy. tupped and foil, breaking the small bone ot her niikle. John Kernels slipped and fell at Gallon's Maturawa caw mill on Saturday moininir, throw ing a email piece of wood on top of the saw. The stick was thrown back with for. o against Ferriok's stomach. Dra Bey and Johnston were in attendance yesterday, and had Tory small hopoa of his recovery, but this morninp their report is moro satisfactory. If he bad boon farther away the piece would have gone through him. UNITED fUCBB AdUOCIATION.j . Auckland. 7th April. Joint Murray, a fireman on the steamer Gait loch, was lound drowned in front of tho Gairloch at Onehunga Wharf. Ho had been despondent and in ill-health. Til 18 DAT. Two jockeys lidinp in tho Steeplechase Handicap at tho Auckland Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday — Katterns, on* Tassy, and Bray, on Little Jane — had their col'<ir< bones broken. After the perfoimanco at the Opera House on Saturday night, Mr. James M Comifcli, for many years leader of the orchestra, fell down the stairway underneath the stage, fracturing his skull and breaking 1 his arm. He died last evening. DUNEDIN, THrS DAT. •* The death of Mr. John Laverty, a wellknown rofciJent at Hyde, U reported ; also, by cable, that of Captain Henderson, owner of the Ormaghlade Station, Miller's Flat. Oamaeu, Th s Dat. Mr. W. M'Keuzie, farmi-r, an old identitr, was killed by sacks of whoat falling on him.