ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

A Gisbome lad, named James Walsh, was seriously injured about the eyes through playing with gunpowder.—P.A. wire.

The body recently found in the Thames River has been identified as that of John Thomas Browne, sixty-three years of age, a resident of Waihi, who left that town to attend the Auckland races at Easter, lie promised to telegraph to his relatives when he arrived at Thames, but did not do 60. It is presumed that he fell off the wharf at Thames, and that the body was carried by the tide to where it was found. —Thames P.A. telegram. Mrs Eudman, aged seventy-two years, who was having a holiday at Mastcrton, went to a picture show thore on Saturday night. She scarcely had been seated when she swooned and died before medical aid arrived. Heart disease was the cause of death.

When Mr T. Scott, of Pareora (Tdmaru), a farmer, was motoring out of town last night he swerved off the road to avoid a cart. The car ran un a bank and capeized, and Mr Scott had both his legs broken. A lady who was with him had sc-mo ribs broken, and another man, who got under the car, was drawn out later in an unconscious condition.

Charles Fyfe, ton years of age, and resident at Bluff, has been admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from a. bad mauling he received from dog?. Fyfe, it appears, had been a fortnight at Bird Island (one of the Titi or Mutton Bird Islands) assisting his cousin, Mr John Topi, and one afternoon, observing twodogs mauling a mutton bird, the lad interfered. The dogs, witli a fiiiarl, attacked him. One of them was a sheep dog, and attacked him from the rear. Fyfe was knocked down, and the sheep dog fastened its fangs in the lad's cheek, and the pair of canines had worried the lad severely when assistance was attracted by his cries. His clothes were torn and his head badly mauled. The little fellow was brought to the hospital, and is now progressing at the institution as favorablv as can be expected. John Milton, a resident of Onehunga, cut his thrn.it four days ago, and since then had been wandering half-demented. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital this morning, and his condition is critical.