ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fBT TEIJSGBAPH — MtESS ASSOCIATION.] FATAL FALL FROM A GIG. WAIPAWA, 12th April. James Reidy, aged about 50 years, a Single man, fell from a gig and died shortly afterwards. The wheel of the gig passed over him, breaking seven ribs. PREMATURE EXPLOSION. TE KUITI, 12th April. By a blasting accident near Waitomo Caves yesterday, a. man named G WRogan had a narrow escape from fatal injury. Owing to a mishap with the fuse there was a premature explosion of the powder, and Rogan was severely burnt about the face and hands. He was brought to To Kuiti for medical attention. BRIDE'S SAD DEATH. WANGANUI, 12th April. A fatal accident occured at 'Ngamatapouri, inland of Waitqiara, last evening, when Mrs. Smith, a recent ai'rival from the Old Country, and who was married only six w«sek» ago, fell from her horse, her head itriking a bank and breaking her neck. RECENT AUCKLAND FATALITY. AUCEIiAND, 12th April. At an inquest concerning the death of William Jones Carter, killed as the iesult of a collision between his cart and a tram car on 4th April, the jury found that no blame was attachable to anyone' and that Buckingham, the motormaa^ did everything possible to avert the accident. - . v PRISONER'S SUDDEN DEATH. AUCKLAND, 12th April. An elderly man named Alexander Campbell, who was serving a lengthy term of imprisonment on several charges of criminal assault, died suddenly this afternoon. Deceased had served about four years of his sentence. GISBORNE DROWNING ACCIDENT. GISBORNE,.I2th Apiil. The man drowned yesterday was Leonard Goatley, aged twenty-seven , years, who recently came from England. He had no friends in New Zealand. His body, and that of the boy Brown have not been recovered. THROWN FROM A HORSE AND KTLT/KT). DUNEDIN, 12th April. George M'Kessar, a stonemason, aged 75 years, was killed at Purakanui today through being thrown from his horse. Deceased resided at Carey's Bay.