ACCIDENIS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 5

A CCIDENIS AND FATALITIES

[BY TELEGRAPH — PKESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, 27th January. A body has been found on the beach six miles north of Mokau. It is that of a man about 50 years of age, stout built, about sft 9in in height, with apparently dark-brown hair. The features are unrecognisable. This description agrees fairly well with that of John Crozier, one of the men who went out fishing eleven days ago, and never returned. The place where the body was found is 41 miles by sea from the breakwater where Crozier and his mate were last seeen.

About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, David Hickey, Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co.'s local storeman, met with a serious accident at the Featherston-street store. While stacking some bales of wool packs, one of them somehow became misplaced, and with several others crushed down on to him. Drs. Anson and Faulke were immediately called in, and it was sqen that the unfortunate man had been very severely injured. All that could be done to relieve his suffering was done, and Hickey was then removed on an ambulance stretcher to the hospital. There it was found that one of his hips was badly dislocated, and he was injured internally. On enquiry at the Hospital to-day, we learned that the case is a critical one, and Hickey was still bleeding internally, but was conscious. He has a wife and three children living in Courtenay-place, and has been in the employ of the firm of Murray, Roberts, and Co for some years, being known as a very steady and wellliked employee. The body of the late Mr. Tracey Hall, the well-known Auckland singer, who was drowned at Lake Takapuna on the 3rd inst, was, contrary to expectation, recovered on Wednesday afternoon in the lake some 400 yds from where deceased was drowned. It was identified by Miss Hall from the rings on the hands. When picked up the body was in a remarkably good state of preservation, corisidering the length of time ifc had been in the water. The face alone showed marks of bruises, which were evidently caused by the backward and forward motion of the body over the loose stones at the bottom of the lake. At the inquest a verdict was returned to the effect, "That deceased was accidentally drowned while bathing in the waters of Lake Takapuna." While Mrs. Whale was fording the Glenroy river (Buller) a few days ago with her child in her arms, the horse fell and precipitated mother and child into the river. The infant was washed away by the fierce current, and the mother only saved her own life with difficulty, as she was encumbered by her riding habit. The body of the child has not been recovered.