ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8755, 30 March 1889, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED BY A BUFFALO. FOUNDERING- OF AN EXCURSION STEAMER. [BF HLKO'JSW VELKGJtAFU VOVTUISUT.X [Special to Peebs Association.] [Bcoeivad March 29. at noan.l LONDON, March 28. By the collision of the steamer Nisayas and, the ship Manile, thirty persons were drowned. News, has been received of the death of the Hon Guy Dawnay, who was killed hy a buffalo while on a hunting expedition in Masailand. He was a brother of the present Yiscount Downe, and formerly member for the North Riding of Yorks in the House of Commons. [The present representative of Yorkshire North Biding (Tbirsk and Malton) in the House of Commons is Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon L. P. Dawnay, second son of the seventh Viscount Downe.] NEW YORK. March 28. By the foundering of an excursion steamer on Lake Chapala, Mexico, thirty persons lost their lives. [The lake in question forms a connecting link in the upper waters of the Bio Grande de Sentia, of the Western coast.] [Received March.3o. at 1.15 a.m,| SYDNEY, March 29. A young man named Jeffery accidentally shot his sister; and, finding she was likely to lose her life, committed suicide. [Pas. Press Association.] WOODYILLE, March 29. A little girl, named Bright will, was accidentally killed this evening by falling before the wheels of a brake, which passed over her body. Death was instantaneous. GISBOENE, March 29. A man named William Wilt, a settler in the district for forty years, was killed at Makuri this morning. He was driving a dray, when the horses were startled. Witt jumped off, slipped, and a wheel passed over his chest. He died shortly afterwards. INVERCARGILL, March 29. The condition of Douglas, station master at Eiversdale, who got caught by one foot in a crossing, and had the foot smashed by a waggon, is ' serious. Amputation will be necessary, but the prostration from loss of blood is too great to permit of the operation. Peter Kelly, a farmer, of Hillend, is in the Hospital, with his legs cut about very badly, he having fallen before a reaper.

A sad accident occurred near the Qlentunnel Pottery Works on Thursday afternoon. Mr J. Jewel, of South Malvern, was working at the clay drive, when a mass of

clay suddenly fell against liim. Mr Brown conveyed the sufferer home, where Dr Hoadley, who had been telegraphed for, attended to his injuries, which, it is feared, are very serious.