ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 267, 12 November 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[press association.]

WAIHI, Nor. 12

A Maori boy named Pukerangi died to-day from injuries sustained by being crushed between timber trucks on the tramline.

AUCKLAND Nov. 12. A. girl of 15 r named Margaret Wright a machine hand at the Defiance Clothing Factory, got her hair entangled in the shaft, and half her scalp was torn off. She was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. ROTORUA, Nov. 12. An explosion occurred on the launch Paiiena yesterday as the boat was returning from Lake Rotoiti. Four men were injured. The engine was not working well, and a man named Steele went to examine it with a lamp in his hand. As soon as the door opened the engine blew up, and set the launch on fire. All-the deckhouse was burned. Steele and Mead were both Dadly burned; the others not so severely. • WELLINGTON; Nov. 12.

lue body of a man, over 50 years of age, was found floating in the harbov.r yesterday. It was taken to the morgue, and recognised as that of Arthur McGowan, a baker; 'whose wife arid family reside in Wellington. The deceased went 'to Chrjstchurch for a holiday at Cup time. He returned to Wellington last Thursday and called on his wife, but returned to obtain his things from the wharf.■ \ AUCKLAND, Nov. 12.

The jockey Thomas Taylor, who was injured when Pohutu fell in the Great Northern Guineas, died in the hospital on Sunday night. He was 41 years of age, and, leaves a widow and several children.

Rene Boulte, one of the crew of the scow Huia, was killed yesterday by the mast breaking through becoming entangled in some willows, and the breaking part falling on Boulte fractured his skull and broke his neck.

■■ .- WANGANUI, Nov. 12. ■ A man named George;, 1 Glasgow, cook at a flaxmill, near WaYj&rley, was burned to death in a horse-^ox at the railway station at Waverley on Satur-r day night. It is supposed that he took shelter from the rain, and dropped a lighted match. His body and two horse-trucks were burned to ashes.