ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14168, 17 September 1906, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Fboji Otm Correspondent.] ROTORUA, September 15. At the fotoball match Rotorua versus Matata on Saturday afternoon, one of the Rotorua players named Lane had two of his, ribs broken, and it is feared that he is also seriously injured internally. (Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 16. A tram accident occurred at EpsVnn on Saturday afternoon, after the Pakuranga Hunt Club races. It appears that a car was at a standstill when another came from behind and dashed into it. An elderly man, who was sitting on the sand box in the stationary car was thrown to the ground, but save for a slight scalp wound was not otherwise injured. The passengers in both cars were considerably shaken, and the apron and platform of the rear car were much damaged. Captain Streeter, who was injured recently by an accident on board tho Ayrshire, died last night. GISBORNE, September 15. Three men wore injured, one very seriously, by a blasting accident at Ihungia, a place inland from Waipiro Bay. No further particulars are available. « WAIPAWA, September 15. A verdict of accidental death was returned at an , inquest at Franklin on Perini, who was killed while shunting at Pukihoa, on September 4. A rider was added that the Railway Department rticnld bo recommended that no men should be sent as assistants on night trains entrusted with lamps unices they were proved to be efficient in signalling. WELLINGTON, September 16. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon on the body of a man found at Wades town .on Friday morning. There is considerable . doubt regarding deceased’s identity. Arthur Penny, manager of tho Willowbank Boardinghouse believes the body to be that of John Mailing, last seen alive on May 9. Henry Starr, a seaman, is of opinion that the deceased is Fred Brown, who disappeared from the Otago Buffet, Wellington, about a month ago. A verdict was returned that deceased, name unknown, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a. , razor. Deceased’s body bears a tattoo mark of an anchor, heart and cross on the left arm, and a thistle on the right arm, also an anchor on the back of the left hand.

Shortly after coming off duty at five o’clock on Saturday morning, Police Constable PenhulMck was found in tho Police Station yard in an unconscious condition, .and was conveyed to tho Hospital, where he now lies. Ho has been ailing for soma lima.