ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1165, 29 June 1894, Page 33

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A boy named George Wilson, seven years of age, was brought down to the Wellington Hospital on Friday night suffering from severe injuries to his right eye. The poor child, who is the son of Mr W. Wilson, farmer, of Otaki, was j>assing through a paddock on his way to school, when ho was kicked by a horse on the head so severely that his life was despaired of, and his father at once brought him down to Wellington. On enquiry we learn that the boy is rather seriously injured, but is progressing as well as can be expected. Our Havelock correspondent, writing under date June 19, says : —A man named Robert Foote met with an accid3nt this morning in the Pelorus Valley. He was riding on one of the empty trucks belonging to Messrs Brownlee and Co., which were being pushed by the engine into the bush beyond Canvastown, when he fell between two of them on to the line. The other trucks and engine passed over him without injuring him, but the driving wheel of the trolly which was behind the engine struck him and fractured his shoulder-blade, besides inflicting other injuries. Ho was brought into Havelock and attended by Dr Hoadley. A little boy named James Aldridge, living with his parents in Elizabeth street, was taken to the Hospital on Monday suffering from a fracture of the right thigh, which he sustained by slipping oil the kerb. The injured limb was set by Dr Ewarfc, and the little sufferer is now progressing satisfactorily. Whilst driving a pile on seme bridge work at Turakina Valley, Rangitikei, the other day Mr J. Maskell was accidentally struck on the head by the monkey and sustained a nasty wound, besides being rendered insensible. He had a narrow escape from being killed. Dunedin, June 20. Mary McCauley, a domestic servant employed in a boardinghouse in Walker street, attempted suicide by taking laudanum this morning. She has been removed to the hospital, and is now recovering. Dunedin, June 2G. , John Walker, 40 years of age, a single man employed by Thomson and Co., aerated water makers, dropped dead last night at his lodgings, the White Horse Hotel, from heart disease. Pahiatua, June 21. A young man named George Young-, working at Piper Bros.' station, Makairo, near Pahiatua, is believed to have been drowned. He left the station yesterday morning to come to town for a doctor. His horse was found at daylight this morning on the opposite side of the Tiraumea river, which i& in high flood. Constable Cooper has gone out to search for the body. Auckland, June 25. Captain Brice, of the Te Awamutu Mounted Infantry, was brought to Hamilton Hospital to-day in a serious state, having been kicked by a horse.