ACCIDENTS AND OF FENCES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 81, 4 March 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OF FENCES.

3fte"up n tr*in, which left Wanganai an JffidSt £" Iwi. tunnel. On «x«mmation, it was ascertfiinetl that one ■of4Bi pisttjn^rtfdrlraa Bbßpj)eji. : Ateenipts we^iatdeftdT*faecly ibis mishap, but as til efforts proyed useless a 1 meeeenger •WM:dewat<Aed .to to,wn. lor assistance. Ail mn «nd' well known resident of Wangauui, Mr Peoples, on Sunday eve•mSfi Idranlc. t>poftlob of the contents of a "bottle of th^poison known as' roußh on •irmts/ ,narrp.wjy,, escaping. a> fatal result. swallowed two. dosss, and he was, 'Bfiirly dead -Wien | found. He is now on WWd'to'rec^very. ' V. v '.„.. Aoaciidettt'of'R serious nature occurred t)n ; Fi4daV:ftt the Manawapou railway coniract, :>A; patity were - conductinjf i ome l)la4tinK> operation?} rand. having pnt m a charge igflited the fuse, but >the fuse TbeSig" bad,',np exploajon toqk place. This ■oecurracl * again »n9 , when drawing,, th c (leSSidlWe the' eiscplosiou occurred; A Cornelias hong- was the ijn^-iDjUrerfvibelnK terribly burned abput tthftfaceanai-wnparts of his body. Mr F. . Richardg. yesterday; wat riding m Wanganui. The Jiprse fell .op hi» heßd aiß»yilyj.ai?d thr^w.ftjr Rich arde, who lay *tuwed for hflf an'^pur. On ?ecov«ring, the^dofad thkt he was minus his gold watch ansQ&ain, with a diamond ring attached, A h«KBe ridden by r a lad near Wangr anlft 1 wasUruck with* stick by 1 another ibov .on (fqpt. The: animal lashed out 3nfUcling< rteititte ib juries over- the boy's fleffc§je,rfrMtußWr{therskull, causing therbraint^ to x»rotr<idf, preß«nticg:«> shock. ingspectacleV Tbera are scarcely any hopes of his recpTery, , • i