ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 30 March 1926, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SAWMILLER KILLED. Invercargill, Alarch 29. Advice has been received of an accident resulting in the death of a sawmill hand. Charles Kirkland, on Friday, in the Catlins river district. It appears that a log rolled on to deceased, causing fatal injuries. Kirkland was 36 yiCats of age and was employed at the Lauriston mill, Tahakopu. He lost an arm about 20 years ago as a result of an accident at Waikawn. The deceased leaves a widow and four children. MOTORING MISHAPS. Dunedin. March 30. Two rather serious accidents are reported from the Lawrence distict. Un Friday, Richard Cotton, of Waipori, - accompanied by William Arnott, of 9 Evans Flat, was returning from Lee Stream when his motor car swerved Irom the road and fell into a gully about 100 feet deep. Both were rendered unconscious. Arnott is in the TuajK'ka Hospital, and is suffering from a crushed chest and broken ribs. Cotton received facial and other injuries. The car was wrecked. On Sunday afternoon, Albert Howard, aged 23, a resident of Dunedin, was returning from Miller’s Flat on a motor cycle when he collided with a dog in Whitehaven street, Lawrence. He was pjeked up unconscious and is in the Tuapeka Hospital in a serious condition with a fractured skull. FELL BETWEEN BOAT AND WHARF. Whangarei, Alar. 30. William Harvey, aged about GO, cmplyed at the Portland cement works, fell yesterday morning between the steamer Herekin and the Portland wharf into ,the harbour, receiving injuries resulting in his death in a YVhangarei private hospital. INJURED BY r AIOTOR CAR. Hamilton, Afar. 30. Airs Ethel Alay Prescott, wife of a railway employee was knocked down by a motor car driven by Air Lafferty, of Frankton, and badly injured, but th© extent of her injuries are not known ponding an X-ray examination. EXPLOSION OF”CHEAIICALS. FIVE AIEN INJURED. Auckland, Alar. 30. An iron cylinder containing chemicals exploded at the ironworks o* Sparker Ltd. Five men were removed to hospital and others sustained imm.r injuries. The men in hospital are:— C. Wheeler, severe burns on face and arms, and left eye injured; F. Horne, E. H. Beoehy and G. Soares, burns on face and arms; F. C. Willetts, slight burns on face and arms. Hamilton, Afar. 30. A middle-aged woman named Airs Lilian Castleton, employed as a housekeeper to Air Alastcrs, farmer, of Eureka, was engaged in washing when flames from a copper ignited her clothes. No on o was about at the time, and the unfortunate woman endeavoured to suppress tho flames by rolling- on the grass, but did not succeed until her clothing was nothing but cinders. She managed to make her way into the house, but was not discovered for an hour. She was removed to hospital, where shg lies iu a serious condition. Otto Barr, an elderly farmer, of Tarata, New Plymouth, was found drowned in a creek on his property last evening by neighbours, who became alarmed when he failed to return to the house. He had not been enjoying good health lately. An inquest will be held to-morrow. A child aged two years, son of J. S. Williams, of Tomuka. was found drowned in a barrel, in which there was two feet of water. The child had been playing near the barrel. Following a quarrel between James McDonald and Airs. Anglove, both employed at Glenlohr station, Wycheproof. Victoria, McDonald was fatally shot with a gun. Later Arthur Anglove husband of Mrs. Anglove, was arrested on a charge of murder. It was alleged that McDonald and Mrs. Anglovo were quarrelling in tho station kitchen when McDonald forced the woman’s head under a tap. Her husband heard her cries for help and immediately after he entered tho kitchen the shooting occurred.