ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10482, 20 October 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT: [Special to Press Association.] LONDON, Oot. 19. Lord Drumlanrig was killed by the accidental discharge of his own gun while shooting at Bridgewater. NAPHTHA SPRING ON FIRE. TIFLIS, Oot. 19. A naphtha spring at Grosney, near Tifiis, caught fire. The flames spread with lightning-like rapidity, and seventeen persons were enveloped and perished, [Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND. Oct. 19. Two lads were accidentally knocked down by the Rev Mr Coates, head-master of the Newton East school, while he was riding down Queen Street this afternoon. They were crossing the street behind some ladies. Ha did not see them, or they him. One lad, Morrison, had bis skull fractured. THE KETCH GATLIN. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 10Captain M’Gilvray, of the s.s. Napier, wired from Fortrose to-day that a bag of potatoes, supposed to have come from the missing ketch Catlin, had been found on the beach at Waikawa. The Napier sailed for Waikawa this afternoon. Two letters from Timaru, addressed to Charles Artherson and George Siaeler, are in the bands of the owner, Mr Todd. These are the names apparently of two of the crew, known as Charlie and George.

A man named Marquis died at the Waimate Hospital on Thursday night, from injuries he received through being thrown from a trap in the Waimate Gorge on Oot. 12. At an inquest held yesterday a verdict of accidental death was returned.