ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10465, 1 October 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Press Association.] THE DOHIJNHA. LISBON, Sept. 29. The steamer Doruada struck a rock during a fog. The total number o£ sovereigns saved up to the present is 22,200. TESEIFIC HURRICANE. NEWCASTLE. Sept. 80. The barque Poltalloch, 2139 tons. Captain Connell, which left a day or two ago for San Francisco with a cargo of coal, encountered a terrific hurricane when about a hundred miles out. Two seamen were drowned, and the captain was bo seriously injured that it was decided to return to port. SYDNEY, Sept. 80. H.M.S. Eingarooma has been docked. About 80ft of her outer bottom is dented and the rivets knocked out, and between 20ft and 25ft of the frame of the inner skin is started. To the unpractised eye there is scarcely anything noticeable. It will take about ten weeks to repair the damage. Meanwhile H.M.S. Tanranga replaces her. FPeb Press Association.] NAPIER, Sept. 29. The scow Paris, Captain Arnaud, 70 tons, is ashore at the northern spit of Mohaka river. The scow left Napier for Mohaka last Tuesday, having been in port some weeks awaiting a favourable opportunity to make the passage. The vessel had on board four extra hands, including Captain Hansen. The cargo would have had to be rafted ashore, as the scow was not able to get into the river. It had on. board 60,000 it of kauri timber for Glendinning and Griffin’s Mohaka bridge contract.

Shortly before the start of the Cross Country Steeplechase at Sumner on Saturday afternoon, a pony harnessed to a sulky shied at a passing tram and ran into it. Messrs A. Duncan and W. Carl were in the sulky at the time, hut escaped unhurt. The axle was broken by the collision. On Saturday evening a man named Goslin fell off the Sumner tram near St Peter’s Church, and fractured hia collarbone badly. A wheel of the tram went over one of the man’s feet and two of hia toes had to be amputated when he was taken to the Hospital. A boy named Unwin was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning, suffering from a fractured foot sustained through a fall from a horse on the Papanui Road, on Saturday. A man named J. Clarkson slipped while gathering mussels from the timbers under the Moody Wharf, Timaru, on Saturday, and after trying for some time in vain to clamber up the slippery piles, the cross timbers being out of reach, he had to cry out for help. Fortunately two gentlemen were on the wharf at the time, and they gave him a bight of a rope to sit in till a boat oamo up. Clarkson was nearly exhausted when he was given the rope.