ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 84, 11 April 1901, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[DT TFJ-KOnAPH.—-PKESfI, ASSOCIATION.] AI)QKLA?.JD, 10th April. John Grotty, an old nnd respected settler at Waipipi, whs found lying on the Waipipi road nearly dead, and died shortly after being J.*ound. He left Waiuku the pievious evoning, driving a spring cart, and must have been thrown out. A peculiar accident happened at Mangaweka on Wednesday (says an exchange), when a settler named S. Lone, who was clearing a piece of bush, nearly cut off 'his no.se with un axe. Tho implement apparently caught' in a vine as ho was swinging it, and turned it round, cutting the nose through above the bridge. The sufferer held the injured organ in place until a friend secured it with stickingplaster. An eight-year-old boy named Clifford Hawes, son of a Kaiwarra- resident, was yesterday thrown out of a trap against a fence on the Hutt-road. He was brought to the hospital suffering from fractured skull nnd collarbone. So far io change in bin condition it rettMjgflf

MARRIAGE. Withikhiok— Campbelii.— On tbo 27tli Murcb, I 1001, at Webb-street Primitive Methodist Church, Wellington, by the Rev. J. Dawsou. Richard Le Beau, second son of the late Richard Witbington, Wellington, to Elizabeth Mary (Ciss), second daughter of James Campbell, of Wellington. IN MEMORIAM. Benson.— lu loving memory of William Beu&on, who died at Takanu on 7th April, 1898, aged 73' years. The Lord gave and the Lord lakolb, away.