SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, 29 June 1914, Page 7

SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

TALLY CLERK KILLED,

SPECIAL FIXING FAILS.

m |§ (BI TKLEGEAPIt. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] l! Tiuarc, Sunday. £ railway tally clerk named Archibald If Campbell, crushed in a truck by a 44-ton I* load from the Waiwera on Thursday mornyig, died about midnight yesterday. An If inquest was opened this morning. '0 Members of the crew stated that the 8-accident was caused by a special fixing {or the lift giving way. Anderson, a lamp Sirimmer, Wills, tho boatswain, and fetoberts, third officer, gave evidence re- % garding the gear. Anderson, who is said p.-. to be a competent seaman, fixed the gear, tang a new strop made of 3sin Manila Ifjijpe, which should .bear four tons. Four % plies were used. Anderson could not tell bow or when tho rope broke.

| LOT MOVING TRAM. .WOM-V* KILLED AT NAPIER. R ; [BT tixigbaph.—press association.] Napier, Sunday. About 5.55 p.m. on Saturday Mrs. Bessie Palmer, aged 74 years, who resided §;it BatUiry Road, walked off a moving lltram-cai in Faraday Street and sustained |f icjujie? from which 6be died a few minutes §• later. It appears that she had asked to § be set down at Miller Street, but before I; reaching there she walked off the car, £ which was travelling at about six miles Mm hour.

H DIED from HIS injuries. M It If SKULL FRACTURED BY FALL. H[K TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] H?[B? telegraph.— pbess association.] Wellington, Sunday. |§ A man named Peter McLoughlin, who arrived in Wellington recently from the •j. country, died in tho hospital on Friday night as the result of a fall in Willis Ifgtii-et during the afternoon. The cause I?of death Is supposed *"to be due to a iit'jacture to the base of tho skull.