TRAGIC AFFAIRS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 2 September 1929, Page 5

TRAGIC AFFAIRS

SHARK ATTACKS MAN . DIES IN FEW MINUTES (United Preu Association—By CableCopyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 2, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, September 2. The first shark of the season occurred at when Edward Hobbs fell off a wharf into Ross Cicek. Ho was attacked immediately by a monster, both legs lieing mutilated. The man died within a few minutes. EXPLOSION IN GRATE TWO MEN INJURED, ANOTHER HURLED THROUGH DOORWAY. [Per Press Association.! Auckland, Sept. 2. An explosion at 14 Seibourne street, Grey Lynn, last evening wrecked the sitting room and blew out a stove in the kitchen. It is be. lieved that the explosion was due to the firing of a detonator in the coal in the grate. The occupier, .Stanley John Agnew, and his son Stanely, aged 26, were taken to hospital with injuries caused by flying furniture. Three others sustained slight injuries. Chough, a visitors, was hurled through a doorway to the far end of another room. ATTACKED BY A BOAR WANSTEAD FARMER SERIOUSLY HURT TAKEN TO HOSPITAL., [Per Press Association.] Waipukurau, Sept. 2. A well known farmer, Mr. Walter Scott, aged about 50, was feeding pigs on his farm at Wanstead this morning when he was attacked and knocked down by a sustaining deep rips in both legs and severe head and facial injuries. He was admitted to Waipukurau Hospital, where an operation was performed. His condition is as well as can be expected. [Per Press Association.] While being driven to the Auckland Savage Club on Saturday evening by Zante Wood, fatal injuries were sustained by Albert Vyvyan Hunt, aged 65, artist of Grafton road. The car had stopped below the safety zone at tho top of Symonds street for Hunt to call at a nearby shop for a parcel. He had just passed round the back of the car to cross the rqad when he was knocked down by a passing car driven by Mrs R. Chrismas, of Mercer load, Ponsonby. He died in hospital at 1 a.m. on Sunday, James R. Symonds, married, with a large family, gatekeeper of the Manawatu Gorge bridge, who was knocked down by a car last week, died in the Pahiatua Hospital on Saturday evening. He never regain'd consciousness. The dead body of a female infant, in a brown paper parcel, was found on the beach at St Helier’s Bay, Auckland. It had apparently been dead about three days. Four persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor-car overturned in shingle at Clarkville (near Christchurch) last night. Mrs Hadges suffered severe head injuries; Peggy Harman, aged eight, a granddaughter of Mrs Hodges, sustained a dislocated hip. The driver was George Hodges, of Christchurch, who received minor injuries. Frederick Sincock, aged 43, sustained fractured ribs. Hoani Tautahi, aged 75, died at Te Puia (Poverty Bay) Hospital from injuries self-inflicted with a razor. During his sojourn in hospital the patient resolutely refused food for the three days prior to his death. The charred body of Mrs Annie Bishop, widow of a constable recently deceased, was found on a vacant section near her home at Birkenhead Auckland, this morning with an empty kerosene bottle and a box of matches nearby. Yesterday afternoon a little girl, Colleen Cleary, was knocked down in Carlyle street, Napier, by a service car driven by a man named Wallace. She was removed to the Napier Hospital suffering from severe injuries. From the circumstances it seems that the unfortunate occurrence was purely accidental- This afternoon her condition, although serious, was reported to be slightly improved.