ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1196, 1 February 1895, Page 28

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Shortly after 2 o’clock yesterday week an alarm of fire was rung out from the Manners street Station, but the services of the Brigade were not required. It appears that a young man named Frederick Levostan was at the back of Messrs Wardell Bros, and Co.’s premises in Willis street soldering some kerosene tins. The heat of the stove and the strong rays of the sun caused a bottle of kerosene which was standing near to burst, and the fluid, becoming ignited, spread over the ground and among the embers of the stove. The flames were quickly ''quenched, and the Fire Brigade, which had previously been summoned, were informed that they would not be wanted. No damage was done.

Our Tenui correspondent writes that on Saturday week a young girl, daughter of Mr Anderson, was thrown from her horse and had her arm broken. On Sunday morning a young man named Mitchell, a well-kuown Wairarapa athlete, broke his leg. Dr Dawson attended in both oases. The Manawatu County Council office at Sanson, the building formerly occupied by the Bank of Australasia, was burned to tlie ground early yesterday week. It is supposed that the fire was tlie work of an incendiary. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Our Tenui correspondent telegraphed that a young woman named Jane Dunn, 18 years of age, died suddenly at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Whakataki. Constable Collerton, in a telegram to Inspector Pender, states that Dr Dawson, who attended her a few weeks ago, has declined to give a certificate.

A man named Richard Flutey has been drowned in the Tiraumea River.

The body of a man named James O’Brien, a chimney-sweeper, was found in a watering-tank at Christchurch on Saturday. Inspector Pender received a telegram from Palmerston North on Sunday stating that at 10.20 p.m. on Saturday a fourroomed cottage at Taunui street, owned by Jas. Brazer, of Birmingham, and occupied by two men named Graham and Britt, was destroyed by fire. A man named Elerig, a 09m medial

traveller, attempted to commit suicide by poisoning l at the Rutland Hotel, YY anganui, on Saturday, says the Chronicle. He was taken to the Hospital, and his condition is improving. A two-roomed cottage, the property of G. A. Fairbrother, was accidentally burnt ' down at Carterton at 1 o’clock on Sunday morning-. The building was not insured. A telegram received by inspector Pender from Constable Darby, of Carterton, states that a woman named Elizabeth Turner died suddenly at Wainuioru on Sunday morning. The dead body of a man named William Montg-omery, employed on the Baincliffe station, has been washed up on the beach at Timaru. Deceased had been in the Police Force in Victoria. Dunedin, January 23. A schoolboy named Arthur Jenkins while scrambling up the rocks at the waterfalls in Woodhaugh Valley, this afternoon, in company with his brother, slipped and fell about 30 feet. When he was picked up life was extinct. The face and the base of the skull were shattered to p r eces.

Deceased was the son of James Jenkins, bootmaker, Green Island. Dunedin, January 24. Christopher Ward, an old resident of Waitahuna, died in a railway carriage this morning on his way to Milton. He had been ailing some time. It is presumed that death resulted from heart disease.

New Plymouth, January 24. A shocking occurrence is reported from Omata.

A dog attacked a youth named Oliver and had to be shot to make it relax its hold. The youth has been most severely injured.

A man named Samuel Julian committed suicide to-day at Koru.

The son of the deceased heard a shot fired, and proceeding to an outbuilding found his father lying dead, with a doublebarrelled gun between his legs. The gun had evidently been fired with the aid of a piece of string. Deceased had been despondent of late, but no cause can be assigned for the deed.

Auckland, January 24. A fire in a lane off Wellington street destroyed a cottage occupied by an Assyrian hawker. Handley’s sauce and vinegar factory and stock were damaged to the extent of <£lso. Insurances : The hawker’s stock, <£Bo, Alliance; cottage, owned by Christopher, .£SO, North German ; Handley’s premises and stock, <£37o, Phoenix. Auckland, January 25. A shocking bathing fatality has occurred on the West Coast, opposite Aratapu. A large number of Wairoa residents were camped on the coast holiday-making, and of several who went in to bathe, three young girls—Evelyn Hogg, Bessie Scott and Annie Woollams—were drowned. Mrs Hope and a girl named Florrie Jones had a narrow escape.

Miss E. Hogg was one of the younger daughters of W. Hogg, grocer, Newmarket. She was on a visit to her aunt, living at Aratapu, and was accompanied by her mother.

The same morning- a little daughter of Hector Alcock, of Aratapu, was drowned from the Kauri Company's boom. News has been received that a young man named Kitchener, 25, accountant of the branch of the National Bank at Tauranga, which was to be closed permanently, shot himself through the head in the bank to-day. He had just returned from lunch. The doctor probed for the bullet, but it is still unextracted. The doctors have a fair hope of Kitchener’s recovery. He had been in delicate health, but appeared better since his removal to Tauranga. Great sympathy is felt for Mrs Kitchener, his mother, whose grief is great. She lost her husband and two children in a fire at Dunedin. Melbourne, January 24. By the capsize of a coach cn a steep incline near Brulhen, about 190 miles east of Melbourne, the driver, named Walsh, was killed, and the passengei-s—Messrs Graeber and Thomson, Mrs Withers and two children—were severely injured. Invercargill, January 28.

Mr J. A. McDonald, aged 24, was shot dead this evening near Lime Hills while while out rabbit shooting. He was a son of Mr McDonald, formerly of Milton, but now living near Oamaru.