Accidents and Fatalities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 370, 12 July 1897, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, This day. At an inquest held to-day on the man who died in the hospital on Saturday a verdict of death from meningitis was returned. Deceased has not been identified. Blenheim, This day. A- man named Harry Satherley, a well-known horse trainer, has been missing since Friday night. He had been drinking and is supposed to that fallen into one of the rivers, near the town. The police and others were engaged in dragging operations on Saturday afternoon and Sunday but without success.

A young man named Daniel Taylor was taken to the Wellington Hospital from Paraparaumu by train on Friday night, having had his left hand severely crushed by being jambed between two logs. It was found necessary to remove the little finger. While the s.s. Aorere was unloading at Patea on Thursday night, a slingful of grain which was being lowered into the hold knocked a whurf hand named G. Ashley off the wharf. In falling he struck bis head against the ship's side, and then sank to the bottom of the river. Some minutes elapsed before he could be brought to the surface, but luckily he was resuscitated. A dozen stitches were put into a gash in his head caused by contact with the side of the vessel. On Sunday evening, Mrs Bailey, wife of Mr H. C. J. Baile, of the Red Lion Hotel, Rangiora, had the misfortune to meet with a rather serious accident. One of the children locked himself in his bedroom and Mrs Bailey being unable to gain admission to the room or get any reply to her calls to him, feared that something was wrong. Mr Bailey being absent, she attempted to reach the window by stepping on to the roof of a lean-to from the window of the adjourning room. Unfortunately she walked on to a skylight and fell through to the floor below, a distance of fifteen feet, severely cutting her hands, besides sustaining concussion of rhe spine, several bruises, and a severe shock to the nervous extern.