ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 33

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Miss Rose Koolan, who was severely burned in Light’s Hotel. Feilding. in the early part of March, died on Tuesday evening in the Palmerston Hospital, reports the local Times. Deceased was only 25 years of age. She seemed to be recovering until about a fortnight ago, and she died from shock to tho system. It was reported to the police on Saturday that a boy named Victor Hughes, residing at Karoii, had been accidentally wounded on the previous clay by a bullet from a toy pistol belonging to a lad named Hamilton. Jtappcared that the boys had been playing on tho 'J'inakori road, when the pistol accidentally went oIY whilst one of them was trying to get possession of it from the other, the bullet penetrating Hughes’ cheek. No serious consequences arc likely to result. While two men named William Hampton and William Craven were working at the now Salvation Army Barracks in Vivian street on Saturday morning tho scaffolding on which they were working gave way, and they foil a distance of some 27ft onto a pile of timber below. Dr Pollen attended to Hampton, who had received a wound to his head and some bruises. Ho was ordered to bo removed to the Hospital, whoro he was taken by H. f Carter, a follow-workman. Craven, who was attended to by Dr Terre, was found to have been severely shaken, but no bones were broken. Lieutenant Mathews, of tho Salvation Army, took Craven to his home. Hampton was reported last night to be progressing favourably, and it is expected that he will ho able to resume work in a few days. Two Kaipara residents, Mr and Miss Armiger, fell from the gangway of the • barque Royal Tar the other evening, and ran some risk of drowning until they were rescued by Captain G. McKenzie, of the schooner liuia, who jumped in after them. At tho inquest at Oamaru on tho body of John McKay, killed by falling off tho express train going South, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attributable to anyone. A five-roomed house at Cavorsham, occupied by Hillier, an employee at the Government workshops, has been destroyed by fire. Tho house was insured for =£2oo in tho Standard office, and tho furniture for =£so in tho Noiwich Union ollico. The adjoining house, insured for =£4oo, escaped with a scorching. A young woman named Hall, a resident of Spring Creek, died at Blenheim under tho influence of other administered for tho purpose of tooth extraction. A fatal accident happened closo to Moana, Lako Brunner, on Thursday, by which a man named Kemp Erickson met his death. Ho was sawmilling, and engaging in drawing tho logs out of tho bush, and so far as can bo ascertained, was crushed by the logs ho was bringing to j tho pit. A child named May Baton, four years old, daughter of Mr Baton, draper, Karangahapo road, Auckland, while playing with matches, sot fire to her clothes, and died of tho injuries sho receive l.

Tho barquo Coromandel, which stranded i in tho Westport river recently, was floated off on Sunday, and brought to the wharf. Tho vessel will bo taken to 'Wellington to go on tho Slip for an overhaul. A mau Thomas Stephenson has committed suicide by hanging himself to tho rid go pole of a tent, near Auckland. A man named Martin Cruse shot himself on Monday at 7 o’clock at Contes’ homestead, Blackwalor, Grey Valley, firing two shots into his body. The body was found by a young man named Ernest Cork hill.