ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16192, 19 March 1913, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

THE TOWNHEAD MINE. ENTOMBED IRISHMEN GET A SPRIG OF SHAMROCK. FED THROUGH THE BOREHOLE. United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 17. The Irishmen entombed at the Townhead mine received a 'sprig of shamrock through the borehole, by way of which they have been fed. They will be released to-morrow. FATAL CAPSIZE. PORT DARWIN, March 18. A punt capsized on the Marthar River and three men, named Price, Kennedy and Charles, were drowned. [Per Press Association.] GIS BORNE, March 18. Robert Mouzari, aged eight years, was fatally kicked by a horse at the Taruheru freezing works this morning. DUNEDIN, March 18. A motor-car .accident occurred at Stcneburn yesterday. A blow-out in tho front wheel caused the car to swerve across the road. A heavy gale was blowing and the car turned a complete somersault. Mr P. Toomey and Mr J. M'Gill, of Waikouaiti, sustained concussion, and Mr W. Ainge, of Stono.burn, was slightly hurt. Tho police received advice from Palmerston to-day that Jemima Wright, seven years of age, died as the result of injuries caused ■through her clothes catching fire while she was sotting some rubbish alight.