Accidents and Fatalities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 296, 13 April 1897, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

(Per I'iTss Axxoviation.) Feilhixg, April 12. While Peter Lassen, aged 18, of Bunnythorpe, was this morning driving two horses attached to a dray up the bank of the Oroua river when c the dray upset, and Lassen's neck was broken. Death was instantaneous. Wellington, April 12. At the inquest on the body of the jockey William Sharp the verdict was that death was the result of over indulgence of alcohol and clots ill the heart. This day. Geo. Hogg, a laborer, was found dead at Featlierston, dying in the middle of the street. There was no sign of violence or struggle. Auckland, April 12. Weddall, on a charge of stabbing Morton, one of the crew of the Mamari, was remanded for eight days. A serious accident happened about 10.80 on last Saturday evening to John Lawrence and Flora Lawson, a young man and a young woman, who were walking on a track near an unprotected mining face, at Kumara. This couple were coming along a beaten track which in one place is near the edge of the mining face/ mentioned. The night being rather dark they managed to get off the track, with the unfortunate result that they both fell over into the claim on to a lot of boulders and fragments of rocks. The woman escaped unhurt, but the young man now lies in the local hospital in an unconscious condition, having been so since the accident. He has a deep cut on the forehead, and his left arm is broken a little above the wrist. Pr Scott, however, entertains ultimate hope of recovery.