ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3828, 10 May 1913, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

HUNTING FIELD SMASH

[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM} 1 NEW PLYMOUTH, Alay 9. Air Harold Street, a well-known farmer, was seriously injured when hunting yesterday, having his skull fractured" and other injuries. He is now lying in the hospital. His condition is serious,

A WO AVAN’S DEATH

DUNEDIN, Alay 9. Alt's Jane Hardie, residing in Glen Road, Alornington, died suddenly tins afternoon. She had been attended by a doctor for the last five or six years. Indications go to show that death was the result of haemorrhage of the brain.

FATAL TUNNEL EXPLOSION. DUNEDIN, Alay 9. While working at the north end of tho Chain Hills tunnel putting in gelignite plugs, one of the employees named Harry Smith received such injuries) as proved almost instantly fatal. It appeal’s that Smith was putting in plugs, and another employee, named Charles Gardiner, was pushing them home, when from some unaccountable reason a premature exp’osion took place, Smith receiving the full force of tho charge in the face. Gardiner was knocked about- a b’t in the arms and breast, while two others, named Baker and J. Hutchison, received minor injuries. The express from the south was stopped and all the men brought into Dunedin. Gardiner is now lying in the hospital, but it is not thought that his injuries, are very serious. Baker and Hut bison, after being attended ' to, were able to go home. Smith was a single man, and resided with his mother at Rookysicie, Caversham. He was about 32 or 33 years old

A CONVICT DROWNED

INVERCARGILL, Alay 9. f A prisoner named Frank Petersen, aged about 25 years, was drowned in tho estuary this afternoon. Ho was working on a, bridge on the estuary, and in”.some nnaccountabl© way fell into the water and was drowned in a few minutes. The work was considered quite safe, and operations have been carried on there fer over two years without accident. Peterson was brought from tho-North Is’and, and was serving a sentence of three years. The body has not yet been recovered.