ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7378, 3 February 1902, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(per press association.)

Christchurch, February 2.

Last evening a man named Samuel Griffiths, sexton at Addington Cemetery, went to New Brighton with two friends to fish in the surf. They were dragging a trawl net, and were about up to their shoulders in water when Griffiths suddenly disappeared, and it is supposed that, he got into a hole and was carried away by the drawback. The body was washed up on the beach this morning, considerably mutilated by fish. Deceased leaves a widow and four young children.

A middle - aged man, named Jas. Wilson, was cycling up from Sumner last night, and while going fairly fast the head of his machine broke, and he sustained concussion of the brain.

Auckland, February 2. At the Takapuna races yesterday, one of the contesting horses, Eufus, fell, and his rider, Henry Berry, was badly injured through the horse falling on top of him. Subsequently the unfortunate man died while on the way to the hospital.

Nelson, February 2. Charles Pridham was accidentally shot on Saturday evening. He was standing by a shooting gallery, and the proprietor was loading a rifle, when someone jerked his arm, and the weapon went off, Pridham being shot in the abdomen.

[The unfortunate young fellow is a son of Mr Ernest Pridham, principal of the New Plymouth High School. Late reports received in New Plymouth state that the case is serious, the doctors being unable to locate the bullet.]