ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 8771, 11 March 1892, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Patrick Welsh, who was crushed by a tree while engaged on the Seaward Bush Railway extension on Taesday, and who was subsequently admitted to the Invercargill Hospital, his mates carrying him a long distanoe on a stretcher through the bush, died on Thursday afternoon. The poor fellow's case was hopeless from the first. The deceased, who was thirty-three years of age, had lived in Seaward Bush for the last fifteen years, and leaves a widow and seven children. Welsh was in the hospital a few months ago, and was then under treatment for a broken oollar-bone. This makes the second fatal accident that has occurred in connection with the Seaward Bush line, a man named Brookland having succumbed from the effects of an almost identical mishap some years ago. An old colonist, Thomas Poynton, who settled in New Zealand long before this oountry became a British colony, and lived at Hokianga when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, has died at his residence at Lake T&kapuna, at the age of ninety years.