ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 14 March 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED BY A TREE. [Br TffiEGBAFS. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, This Day. A bush feller named Michael Cruickshank was killed felling a tree at Tahora. His mate had a narrow escape from the tree, which was four feet in thickness. Four men carried the body three miles over rough country, and packed the body to Wharekonae, occn- • pying twenty-three hours in going twenty-eight miks. Deceased was a single man, a native of Australia. His mother and sister are resident in Gisborn&. \ FOUND DEAD. MASTERTON, This Day. A man named Alexander MTLidlan was found dead in his room at the Club Hotel this morning. Deceased was about seventy years of age, and had been working on Brancepeth station as a shepherd. Death was! apparently the result of natural causes. , , FARM LABOURER DROWNED. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. A farm labourer named Percy Hall, about' twenty-six years o£ age, was foxind drowned in tho Waitiirr River, near Purangi, yesterday. Deceased was working for a farmer named Glasgow,and went to muster cattle, having to ford tho river. As he did not"return another man was sent to look for him, and found his body. An inquest is to be held-this afternoon. Hall had no relatives in New Zealand.

Deerstalkers who propose to visit tho Wairarapa during the coming season will be interested to know that at the mBtancc of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society the northern portidn of the Haurangi reserve hdS;becn thrown ope.4 to the public. /Hitherto deerstalkers have been compelled to dupqnd upon private landowners for purmJMion to hunt deer in the Wairaiapa,- but now that there is to be an extensive public ground thrown open things will be much hotter for all comers. The Haurangi resei've has been closed for five or jrix "years, and as it is an extensive tract of country there should be first class sport to be obtained on it. ' The*.boundary lines are being surveyed off, and a tiack six feet wide i« bsing cut on the line. It will bo marked with notice boards all the way, «o that no one will be in any quandary an to whc,vc> tho boundaries begin and end. Tho Haurarigi Reserve is in Featherxton County, some distance south-cast <)f Wairarapa Lake. A map of the whole* district, outlining the reserve in red, has been issued from tho Government Printing Office, and anyone taking out a deer license may secure a map at the same time by paying 'one shilling extra,