ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BX TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WHANGAREI, Ist November. As a train was drawing into the Mair station at 4.15 this afternoon a High School boy named Grigg, aged about, twelve years, a son of- tha schoolmaster at Kaurihohore, fell when trying to step aboard. The wheels of the train passed over both legs, rendering amputation necessary. The boy's condition is critical. ASHBUETON, Ist November. An inquest was held this morning in regard to the death of Bernard Gallagher, an old-age pensioner, who lived by himself. It seems that deceased had been in the "habit of drinking methylated spirit, and on 19th OcI tober, when doing so, the spirit ignited and Gallagher was severely burned. He was taken to the hospital, where he died on Saturday. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony that death was due to exhaustion following delirium. At the inquest touching the death of John Richards, who wae run over at Hinds on Friday afternoon, a verdict of accidental death was returned. DUNEDIN, Ist November. A ichild named Graham, aged two and a half years, son of a farmer at Springs, Middlemarch, died yesterday as the result of injuries through being kicked by a horse in a yard on Saturday. BLENHEIM, Ut November. While the jubilee celebrations were in full swing at 1 o'clock - to-day, a man, ; about fifty-five years of age, nameQ Walter Faulding, who had been a saddler here for many years, dropped dead in one of the main streets. The cause of death was heart disease. Deceased leaves a family. HOKITIKA, Ist November. A fatal accident occurred in the Boss Goldfields, Ltd., shaft at noon. Alfred Steadman was struck on the head- and killed outright by the monkey guide ;n; n falling. A companion named Missen was also injured, but not dangerously. Deceased's wife was at the shaft with the dinner, and the men were just preparing to come up for crib when the accident happened. GREYMOUTH, Ist November. James Snead, an old-age pensioner, who was very deaf, was found burned to death yesterday morning, his hut having been totally destroyed.