Accidents and Fatalities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 398, 13 August 1897, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

(By Telegraph.) (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 12. In a bicycle race between Paltnerston North and Ashurst Walter Freeman, jun., son of the caterer on the Wellington-Manawatn Railway Company's line, received serious injuries owing to the collapse of the fork of his machine. He is m a precarious condition, and one side of his face is shockingly disfigured. Mrs Richard Day was burned to death at Woodhill (Q.) recently, owing to her dress catching fire. A lad 15, named Edgar Chambers, was killed at Walcha (N.S.W.), by striking his head against a kettle. A serious and painful accident happened to a man named Peter Cornford ac Ngahauranga, on Wednesday afternoon. Cornford is a driver employed by the New Zealand Express Company, and was engaged in carting tallow. He hit one of his horses, which immediately kicked out, striking him twice on the left leg. The injured man was taken to the Wellington Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained a compound fracture of the limb. Mr John Mitcherson, aged 23, and a native of Nelson, died at Cheltenham at 3 p.m. on/Tuesday, from concussion of the brain, which was caused by an accident to the deceased on the 7th inst., whilst engaged in bushfelling in Riddiford's bush near Cheltenham. —Star. Two accidents occurred during football matches at Nelson last Saturday. In the Albert-Albion match for the senior cup, C. M'Leod, playing at three-quarter for the Albert Club, broke his leg in collision with another player, and K. Sclanders, of the college team, fractured his coltarbone in another match. A sad sequel to last week's drowning fatality at C-ibbagc Bay is recorded by a Coromandel correspondent. A Belgian named Ralph Oblach has been found dead in his bed at Cabbage Bay. Oblach is stated to have been an elderly man in appearance, and has been living in the district some years doing odd jobs. The last public act of his life was most heroic, for it was he who seeing the Maoris struggling in the surging waters outside Cabbage Bay set out in his little dingy and rescued the three women, a child, and two men, who were clinging to the bottom of their craft which had been upset in the storm. From appearances, Mr Jeffcatt, states that life must have been extinct at least two days. Possibly the old man returned to his solitary home wet and exhausted after his severe exertions and contracted a complaint that led to his lonely death.