ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 14689, 5 October 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

James Shaw, head ploughman a/tGlenary Station, near Waikaia, fell off a waggon loaded with coal yesterday afternoon. The wheels passed over his legs, which were badly crushed. He was brought by motor car to Gore last evening, and died after admission to the hospital.—Gore telegram. An Ashburton telegram states that a middle-aged man named Richard Milner Buchanan, a bailiff, and an old resident of Ashburton, who was recovering from, a drinking bout, was found by menibers of his family in great pain abont 4 o'clock this morning. He died shortly afterwards. Strychnine waa found in the hotuse, and it is understood that it is a case of suicide by poisoning. The man was dead when the police arrived. Mr David Sturrock, second steward of the steamer Rotorua, who had been ill for some days, was found dead in bed at Lyttelton. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to heart failure. Kobert Pryde. aged 19 years, was run over by a dray near Ornimi on Tuesday and killed. lie had been helping his father and brother to load firewood, and after he. had left the bush the horses were noticed galloping home with the dray. William Prydu followed up, and found deceased lying on the. road, his head having been crushed badly. It would seem that the. young man had stumbled and fallen whilst trying to stop the team. An inquest was to have been held to-day. The 'Morton Mains correspondent of the ' Southland Times ' writes :—A very parn-fnl and serious accident happened to Leslie Cone, son of Mr G. 11. Cone, at Karaahi on Monday. It appears that he and a younger brother were ploughing in a, paddock. By come means ho lost his hold of one of his plough -lines, and in his endeavor to regain possession of the line without stopping his horses he jumped on the plough, ;md. slipped down, and the coulter ait a gash into the side of hiis knee, slicing off a. piece- of the joint bone. He was taken to the Tnvercargill hofpitnJ. Shortly before noon yesterday the fully dressed body of a man between 35 and 40 years of age was found floating in the harbor near the Queen's wharf, Wellington. It- appeared to have been in the water for eight or nine davs. The sum of 510 12s ?M and a left luggage ticket in the name of J. MarKhsJl. an order for £4O from the Royal Bank of Scotland (Aberdeen), made on the Bank of N.S.W., Master ton, in favor of James M'Glasha.n, of Scotland, were found in the- pockets. Inquiries mad' 1 at 'Ma-sLerton ehowed that a dr,-. ft for £4O was Iving there for James M'Glnshsn, .md had wr been inquire! for. Tt is .-onsid-ercd that the body is that of MTd.-xihan. -nd tb°f V has recently arrived in New Zealand from Aberdeen. The body of a fully developed male child, apparently two or three days old, was found in a section in Brousrham street. Wolli!%"t©n. on Tcccday evening. An O-rvmant telegram' that a man, apparently unknown, was found dead on the roadside at Queen's Flat this morning. His age was between -TO and 'ls. Papers in his pocket indicate, that he came from Sydenham.