CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS AT MAHURANGI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9140, 23 August 1888, Page 5

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS AT MAHURANGI.

DuiuNO the last few days I am sorry to record that quite a chapter of accidents Has been happening in our usually quite community. First, Mr. George Woodcock, of the Hoteo, had the misfortune to have a gun burst in his hands, which blew off all the muscular part of his thumb, and necessitated the amputatation of that most useful ditfit.

Next, Mr. Win, Wilson, who is engineer at Wilson's limeworks, whilst raising the engine which drives the machinery, was unfortunate enough to have his foot in the way when the chain by which it was being , hoisted gave way, and hat! it not been for an iron bar which received most of the shock, would in all probability have crushed his foot off. As it is, some of the.bones of t lie foot were broken, but have been .set by Dr. Campbell, and the sufferer is now progressing towards recovery.

Another case. Mr. James Morison, of the Kaipara Flats, had the bad luck to have a gunshot wound through the calf of his leg, just below the knee. It seems Mr. Morison, with a friend, was out pig hunting, and as he was striving to keep the animal bailed up, his mate came up with the gun, and as he was in the act of pulling the trigger, Mr. Mo rison shifted his leg away from the pig's tusks, when the shot went off and went through his leg and also laid the pig dead. But the most remarkable part of the business is that the wound h not considered serious enough to call in the aid of a medical man. It is healing up quite fast, a result upon which Mr. Morison is to be congratulated.—[Own Correspondent.]