ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[Peb Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 29
A seafaring man named Hewett was thrown from a horse at Morrinsville and had his neck broken.
At Huntly, while trying to reach her sister, who was in a boat, a little gi'i named Doris Leek missed her footing and immediately sank. There being no help near the child was drowned. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 28.
A man named Matthew Rowe has been buried through a fall of stone in a quarry near Waitara. No particulars are to hand.
On Friday night a man named John Whelan, employed at Hayland Station, met with a rather serious accident. He was driving across the Ashley riverbed on the track from "Oust to the station, with a companion, and rising from his seat to alight from the trap, overbalanced and fell over the dashboard. The hook at the side of the dashboard, to prevent the reins slipping off, entered his thigh close to the groin, and ripped a large wound, from which he bled profusely. His companion obtained the services of Dr Volckman as speedily as possible, and the Rangiora police brought the man into the town, and took him to the hospital by the Srst' train on Saturday morning.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12696, 30 December 1901, Page 6
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