ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Star, Issue 8506, 4 May 1891, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Robert Laing, a gum digger, who lived at Kawau, fourteen miles from Kawakawa, committed suioide on Friday night by cutting his throat. John Daay, an employe' of Mr John Henderson, of the Glenavy Hotel, Waitaki North, met with a nasty aocident on Thursday last. He was working among some horses in the stable, when one of them turned round and knooked him down, treading on his leg, and fracturing the two bones near the ankle joint. The inspeotor of police has received information that a Chinaman named Bun Yum, a miner at Bald Hill Flat, died suddenly yesterday afternoon. An inquest is to be held.

George Boyles, twenty-one years of age, residing with his father, G. Boyles, farmer, of Sandymount, accidentally received a gunshot wound in each of his thighs on Saturday afternoon. He was oleaning harness in a shed when the affair happened. It seems that his brother Reuben came into the shed with a double-barrelled gun, one barrel of which had been just fired. Reuben was standing speaking to his brother and examining a cap that was on the nipple, when the second barrel, whioh he did not know was loaded, went off. Dr Gordon Macdonald was sent for, and on arrival he extracted some'of the shot from the man's thighs. The affair was a pure acoid6nt.

The injuries sustained by Hugh Hansen in the railway accident at Kelso are that his right arm is broken, one of his fingers is out off, five ribs are broken, and internal injuries are also inflicted, but Dr De Lautour has hopes of the man's recovery. William Montgomery, another surfaceman who was working with Hansen at a sharp turn where the engine collided with the trolly, escaped unhurt. Mrs George, of South Dunedin, sustained a fracture of the left arm to-day by falling down a step. The limb was set at the hospital by Dr Coughtrey, and Mrs George returned to her home. It ia related of the late Dr Sohielmann that whenever he wished to learn a new language (he knew twenty) he engaged servants and a coachman speaking only that language.