ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BY TELEGEAPH. — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, '20th August. A serious accident occurred at Rangiora yesterday. A young man named J. Whitmore, aged twenty-one years, who came from the North Island and a friend named Hall were shooting at a target. Whitmore was standing in tha doorway of a shed and Hall was a. ehort distance away to the 'left. Wliitmore fired a shot and stepped quickly, out of the doorway to ascertain the remilt. Just at that moment Hall fired,, and the bullet struck ' Whitmore in the neck below and behind the left ear, pas-^ sing through the right eye and shatter-, ing the eyeball. Whitmore was removed" to a nursing home, where he was attended by medical men, who removed the eye. Little hope is entertained of ■his recovery. Whitmore has no relaTtives in New Zealand. DUNEDIN, 20th August. Henry Fordham Taylor, 63 years- old, residing at South East Valley, died Suddenly early this morning. Deceased, who was a married man, had been suffering from cold for the last fortnight,, but did not seek medical aid or take tc^ his bed. Yesterday afternoon a single man. named Geoi'ge Birch, residing at No. 7, Myrtle-crescent, was admitted to the Hospital suffering from a crushed hAnd. Several fingers had to be amputated. Birch, who is a machinist in a saw-mill, got his hand in soma manner caught in tho machine.