ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 2 March 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

GISBORNE CASES. (United Press Association.) : GISBORNE, Friday. An unfortunate accident occurred on the. town wharf thi s afternoon. A gang of men were engaged in discharging coal froih the barque Thora, when a wharf labourer, Joseph O'Connell, evidently tripped over a hull rope, and fell through the hatch 20 feet on t<> some coal He -"Was removed to the hospital suffering from concussion of the* ljrain, and his condition is regarded as serious. The body found in the Wairoa river yesterday is that of a European, apparently middle-aged, turning grey, stoutly built, and about- sft. lOin. in height. It hia.T been in the water for about seven davs. No one could identify it, so the bodv was photographed and interred. No one is reported missing. FRACTURED SCULLS. WELLINGTON, Friday. The unknown man who was knocked down by a tram ear in Willis-street- on Thursday -evening, and ha<l his skull fractured, died to-night. No evidence as to identification has been forthcoming. Mona Jupp, the 15-months-old child of Claude Thomas Jupp, was playing with a boy in the Alexandra Hall this morning, when she touched a large platform weighing two hundredweight which was standing on one end against a wall. The platform fell on the infant's head, fracturing the base of the skull. She died soon after admission to the hospital. The child's father was framing pictures in the hall at the time of the accident.