Accidents and Fatalities.

Hastings Standard, Issue 484, 24 November 1897, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

(By Telegraph.) (Per Press Association y Wellington, This clay. Early this morning Andrew Sinclair was admitted to the Hospital suffering from injuries received through placing a dynamite cap in his mouth. The roof of his mouth was blown out and the lower jaw shattered. There are no hopes of his recovery. Later. The man Sinclair was noticed to be in a despondent state for some weeks past. He left the boarding-house last night and went to a house in Haining street where he put the cap in his mouth and lit the fuse in the presence of two women. The injuries are frightful, and though the man rallied a little to-day it not thought he can possibly recover. It is believed he came from Poverty Bay. Dunedin, This Day. Thomas Howarth has been received into tho hospital suffering from a somewhat severe incised wound in the throat, believed to be self-inflicted. He is expected to recover, Gisborne, This day. The bushmen employed in felling bush at Tearai discovered the skeleton of a woman and child in the hollow of a Karkatea tree close to a small lake. The Natives in the vicinity can give no information of anyone missing, and it is presumed the remains may be those of a woman and child who in trying to escape at the time of the Native troubles in Poverty Bay lost theU' way iu the busb.