ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Star, Issue 7405, 28 December 1887, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

John Reason, who fell over a precipice at Shag Point on Monday, died in the Hospital at 10.30 this morning. Murdoch Young, employed on a lighter at Port Napier, was missed last night. He was last seen at ten o'clock leaving the Railway Hotel the worse for liquor. His hat was found on board the lighter. The body was recovered this morning in the inner harbor. The * Taieri Advocate' Bays that a boy eight years of age, son of Mr D. : Scott, railway guard, got out of his depth while bathing in the lagoon at Outram on Friday last, and would have been drowned but for the pluck shown by two lads named Snow and M'Bride, who swam to Scott's assistance. Mr Geo. Adams, 'Hansard' reporter, died at eight o'clock this morning from the effects of the injuries sustained by falling over a cliff at Wellington on Monday. A boy named Henderson, 13 years old, met with a painful accident at the Morning' ton Presbyterian Sunday School picnic held at Clydehill yesterday. He was climbing a tree in search of birds' nests, when he fell to the ground from a considerable height, and his leg coming in contact with a pointed stick, the wood penetrated the limb, which was also fractured by the fall. A man named Johnston, in the employ of Mr Reid, of Elderslio, died yesterday in the Oamaru Hospital, his back having been broken by a dray going over him. A boy of eight years, son of Mr T. Crawley, ex-Mayor of South Invercargill, was choked on Monday by an indiarubber toy known as a "squeaker" slipping into the Ihroat. E. Rawlings, road overseer on the Christ-church-Hokitika road, was injured whilo clearing away a landslip near Rocky Point. Both legs were broken, and he waß injured internally. He died whilst being carried to tho Kumara Hospital. Jeremiah Hunter was killed at Stratford on Saturday when bushfelling, a tree striking him on tho groin. Mary Burke was drowned on Saturday night at Woodhill (Auckland) by falling into a creek. The woman and a man named Hamen were seen by a neighbor pulling up the stream. He states that they were both drunk, and that he offered to pull the boat across the stream, but they refused. The body of the woman was afterwards found in the stream. ' A farmer named William Routley was found dead in his stable at Pukekohe on Monday. The 'Daily Times' correspondent telegraphs that news reached Arrowtown on Monday that young John Reid, seoond son of Mr John Reid, of Macetown, nlost his.life in Grossing the Makarora River. Young Reid was in company with another man. On getting into some quicksands in the river both'men were unseated,, Reid'a horse rolling'ovet him. This, it is supposed, led to his ; , benjg; His companion managed to make for the bank, while the. horse he was riding was- drowned, Reid's body has not yet been discovered* He was s tall and powerful young, man ot about twenty years of age.