ACCIDENTS, ETC

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12317, 8 July 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

ACCIDENTS, ETC

. On July 3 the Right Rev. Dr. Frodsham, Bishop" of North Queensland (who is lA present in Auckland for the purpose of raising funds to repair the terrible losses caused to the Church property of his diocese by the recent Townsville cyclone), " met with a rather serious accident in; Pon6onby. -He was thrown from a trap, which ' was "run,into by an electric tramcar, : and received a severe.scalp wound. . '..■'.- The most d' .*strous tire that has taken place in the < .cy of Auckland as far as loss of life is concerned since the destruction of the Grand Hotel occurred shortly before three a.m. on Friday, June 19, in Wynd-ham-streot, when three lives were lost, and .i„the' building known as the Shakespeare boa,rdhighouse, kept by an Austrian named Nicholas Lukich, was gutted. On Wednesday, June 24, Mr. George Vercoe, aged-23, of Herekino, went out alone for the purpose of farm duties,-taking with him his gun, with the intention of shooting a lew pigeons on his way through the bush near his father's land. , On th« Saturday following his body was found face •'• down, his-gun lying by his side, with the tip of the hammer well bent back, and his bag,' containing some pigeons, fastened round him.

A .shocking fatality occurred at Pollingwood on "June 20. Two brothers named McGrane were larking together, when the elder, aged 19, picked up and pointed a pea, rifle at the younger, believing it to . he unloaded. The weapon went oft', -and I the' lad was shot in the face, death resulting. - Mr. Win. White, one of the oldest residents of Mercury Bay, was killed on June 19 at Otongaru Creek through a dam bursting- • A fatal accident happened on June 20 to a five-year-old son of Mr. Ohannon, Helens' ville. While chopping wood on top of a well the lid gave way, and the child, falling in, was-drowned. Two fatalities caused by falling trees are ■ reported at Lake Waikaremoana. A man % named Saunders was killed by a tree falling across his whare, while at Whatatutu Jas. ; _ Jackson was killed by a tree falling oh him." A shocking fatality occurred on the railWay at Spring Grove, Nelson, on the 22nd of June. Mi. James Thomas Smith, a Wai-iti• settler, and well-known cricketer and Druid, left the city by the half-past • four ' train and got off at Spring ~ Grove to talk to his betrothed. He remained .too long on the station platform; and as the train moved off he attempted to jump aboard, Ha fell.under the. platform, and some of the carriages. and the brake van went over him ' and mutilated both his legs. The young -lady, fainted with horror. Mr. Smith was taken on the train and carried to Wai-iti, where two doctors amputated both his legs, but the sufferer died of shock.