ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1894, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

|By Telegraph .J [Our Own Correspondents.) Masterton, This Day. Mr. Eli Smith, J.P , mot with a very serious acoident at his home at Tawataia on Monday. Ho was blasting a log, when a sudden explosion ooourred, and he sustained a fraoture of the right leg, besides other severe injuries. He is now in the Masterton Hospital, in a critioal condition. A lad named Albert Thompson was working with his father in a gravel-pit at Opaki yesterday, when a fall of earth occurred, and the lad was buried. When extricated it was found that he had sustained a compound fraoture of the leg. He is now in the Masterton Hospital. Palmbrston North, This Day. A man named K. Seccomhe, while engaged in painting the Cafe de Paris, fell off the scaffolding to the ground, a distance of 35ft, breaking his leg at the ankle and several ribs. His escape from fatal injury was miraculous.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! INVERCABGILL. 28th August. The inquesb on the body of the child found in a creek at Fortrose was commenced to-day and adjourned for a week. The medical evidence showed that"the child was put into the water whilst living. Dunkdin, 28th Angnst. David Pettigrew, 55 years of age, a miner, died suddenly at Rookland Station, Lammerlaw. John Gray, a miner, 82 years, was found dead in a hut at Morven Hills, near Cromwell.