ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1136, 8 December 1893, Page 29

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

The local manager of the Union Steam Ship Co. received a telegram last Thursday from Captain Lambert, of the Wainui, stating that Alfred Smith, second steward of the vessel, is missing. Smith was last seen on the steamer a few minutes before she left the Queen’s Wharf at midnight on Wednesday. Smith, who is 23 years of age, and a native of Auckland, is a brother-in-law of Mr J. G. Chambers, of the D.I.C.

A man named Joseph Johnson was taken to the Hospital on the 30th suffering from a bad cut on the foot, inflicted by himself while bushfalling at Whiteman’s Valley. He is progressing favourably. The torpedo engineer, F. G. Hamilton, drowned by the sad accident in Lyttelton harbour on Tuesday last, was the eldest son of Mrs Hamilton, landlady of the White Hart Hotel, Carterton. Ex-Detective Shury, who fell dead from heart disease at Tuapeka Flat lately, came to Invercargill from Victoria early in 1863, and was Southland’s first detective.

The life of the late Mr Skey, who was recently killed in the Wairarapa district, was insured in the Mutual Life Association for ,£ISOO.

A lady resident of Levin was taken suddenly ill with fainting fits on the Palmerston North down train on Saturday. Guard Talbot at once secured the services of Dr Powell, who was travelling by the same train, and he did all in his power for the sufferer until she arrived at Levin, where she was put in an express and taken to her home.

Palmerston North, December 3. There are 12 patients in the hospital. Six of the cases result from accidents. A man named John Schroder had his right leg broken and his left foot crushed while bushfelling at Birmingham. This morning r man named John Moire fell from the Rangitikei Bridge, and had his collar-bone broken and some of his ribs fractured. His wife and family live in Auckland.

Edward Monaghan, farmer, Karori, died at an early hour on Saturday morning from injuries received by a fall from his horse on Tuesday. He leaves a widow and one child. The Coroner, to whom the circumstances of the case were reported, does mot consider an inquest necessary.