ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 135, 5 December 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fBY TELEGRAPH— ?BESS ASSOCIATION.] . CHRISTCHURCH, 3rd December. ■ The body of a well-known character, Patrick O'Connor, was discovered by two High School boys at an early hour this morning, lying face downwards In 3ft of water in the Avon. There was a small cut on the left eye, probably caused through, falling. Deceased, according to the police report, went out last night on a drunken bout with another man. and it is thought that most likely he fell in the river when drunk. Deceased leaves a widow and a family of twenty-thrco children. AUCKLAND, 4th December. A man named John F. Schaffer, who resides at Hobsonville, was drowned in the harbour on Saturday night. He fell oil the Northcote Ferry tee at the city, and "apparently struck the wharf in falling. CHRISTCHURCH. 3rd December. Whilst he- was taking part in the Press bicycle road race to-day the fork of A. . Whitmore's machine broke, and he was thrown on to the road on his forehead and severely cut. GISBORNE, This Day. Myrtle Jane Johnson, aged 18 months, daughter of a Borough Council employee, died as the result of drinking carbolic oil which had been left on a table in a saucer to keep flies away. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] ' PALMER STON NORTH, This Day. W. H. Goodall, an employee at Seifert's flaxmill at Rangitane, reported to the police last evening that Charles Shannon, a catcher at the same mill, had been drowned in the Manawatu River while bathing. Goodall stated that Shannon had been bathing just after tea, and was seen by some Maoris .ia sink and rise again 'in the water twicej and then disappear.- Shannon, who is about nineteen years of age, had- : been employed at the mill for less than 'six weeks, and nothing is at present known as to his relatives. A wharf labourer named Peter Le Payne had one of his feet crushed in a steam., winch on board a vessel in port this "morning. He was removed to the hospital.