ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12158, 23 March 1900, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ —— United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE BALMAIN DISASTER. , SYDNEY, March 22. At the inquiry into the Balmain- accident the evidence failed to throw any en the cause. The survivor only knew that there was a sudden bump and he found himself in the bucket alone. Inspectors deposed that they had never seen a better equipped or more carefully worked shaft. The solutions suggested were that the men attempted to change places, or one became suddtpiiy ill. A verdict of accidental death was returned, the jury adding a rider that all persons using shafts should undergo a periodical medical examination.

an Explosion in a colliery. BRISBANE, March 22,

An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Torbaulea Colliery. Five man' —Griggs, Johnstone, Gamine, and two Houstons, father and son—were dreadfully burned. Johnstone, Griggs and Houston, jun., are dead.

[Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, March 22,

An old man named Walter Jennings, a bootmaker, was drowned at seven o’clock this evening. He was picked up after being a quarter of an hour in the water, but all efforts to restore life failed. He had been drinking of late, and it is presumed he walked into the river.

On Tuesday, as Mr T. R. M’Dcnald was riding through Wiukari lie was thrown from his horse. He received some nasty wounds on his head, and was taken to Mr G. Dullard's residence, where his wounds were attended to. At about noon on Wednesday a horse harnessed to a four-wheeler, which was standing outside a saddler’s shop in Manchester Street, took fright and ran away in the direction of town. It came in collision with, a: telegraph post at the corner of Lichfield and Manchester Streets, where it was secured. The vehicle suffered considerable damage in the collision.

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