ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Ly Gye, a Chinaman, was killed yesterday while working by himself in a claim at Bound Hill. He did not get home as usual at night, and when his friends went to look for him they saw one of his hands sticking oat of a heap of mullock that had fallen from the face. When got out he was quite dead. A lad named Morrisey, while working over a tunnel at Kaimati, near Oreymontb, yesterday afternoon, was carried by a falling tree 200 ft, smashing bis arm and injuring him internally. Dr Buckley was at once sent to the scene, and amputated the arm at the shoulder. It is feared the lad is otherwise seriously injured. Joseph Robert Smailes died suddenly at the Westport Hospital yesterday. Deceased was admitted on Monday night, suffering from diarrhoea. He leaves a wife, who resides at Brunnerton. The Melbourne papers supply particulars of a ead drowning accident in the Goulburn River on Boxing morning. A party of three young men bad gone from Melbourne to spend a fortnight’s holiday in shooting and fishing. One of them, named Williams, a clicker at a boot factory, went into the river to bathe, his two companions contenting themselves by fishing about fifty yards further up the stream. Williams dived in the water, afterwards swimming about thirty yards. Suddenly he called out " Frank ! ” three times, sank, and was not afterwards seen by his friends, who ran to his assistance. Neither of them, however, could swim. The deceased, who was aged twenty and 6ft in height, was a son of sir George W. Williams, secretary of the Dunedin Coursing Club. He was educated in the Union street and Outran schools, and left for Victoria about] twelve months ago,