ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 39

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A man named McGuire, employed by Mr Trevor (the contractor) in the work of extending Messrs E. W. Mills and Co.’s buildings on Jervois quay, met with a painful accident last week. He was engaged in hauling up buckets of cement when by some means his hand got caught ia the block and was pulled right through. He was taken to Mr Fitz Gerald’s dispensary, where it was ascertained that, though the hand had been very severely crushed, no bones were broken. Mr Fitz Gerald dressed the wound, and it will be a week before the injured man is capable of resuming work. A man named Broadbent, who took rhe place of McGuire, injured on Wednesday whilst at work at Messrs E. W. Mills, and Co.’s new building, met with a precisely similar accident himself on Thursday, his hand being severely crushed. He was attended to by Mr Fitz Gerald, chemist. The police authorities received intimation on Friday from Palmerston North that a man named George Mclndoe had attempted to commit suicide on the previous night by shooting himself in the side of the head with a gu.i loaded with shot. Dr Satchell attended him, but the wound is not considered dangerous. Shortly after 2 o’clock on Sunday morning a two-roomed building situated at the rear of the Choral Hall, Courtenay place, was found to be on fire. The Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene, and put out the fire, the building being gutted. The building was only lately taken over by the Helping Hand Mission, and was uninsured. Information was received in Wellington on Monday of the destruction by fire at Ficton of the George Hotel, kept by Air George Seward, well known in Wellington as “ Takapuna Tom.” The collective insurances totalled .£950. Tho origin is unknown. During one of her recent trips from Blenheim to Wellington the Waihi met with an exceptional experience on the Wairau Bar. Heavy breakers washed over the vessel, and one was so severe that those persons who happened to be on deck at the time were knocked about like rolling-pins, getting a complete drenching into tho bargain. One gontleman was thrown over the side of the vessel, executed a most graceful somersault, and went head first into the water. His foot was fortunately seized by another passenger just in the nick of time, and the wouid-be merman” was hauled back again none the worse for his unfinished dive into the ocean. All he lost was his hat, for which he received a thorough wetting and a mouthful or so of water. Westport, November 15. Frederick Newsome, mine manager at Granity Creek, committed suicide yesterday morning by drowning himself in a dam. He left at 7 a.m. to go to his duties and was missed at dinner-time. A rearch resulted in his coat, hat arid dinner being found on the dam-bank. Attached to the coat was a note to his wife, asking forgiveness for the ia.sk act. The water was run out of the dam, and the body recovered at 2.30 p.m. Deceased had not been well for some time past, and suffered from insomnia. He was about 34 years of age. He leaves a wife aud one child. Ho was highly respected and his sad end has caused quite a shock to the community. Carterton, November 10. The body of tho man Alfred C. Ivowo, who was reported missing about a week since, was found in the Ruamaliunga River yesterday, a little below Kokotau Bridge. At an inquest this afternoon a verdict was returned that deceased was drowned in attempting to cross the Ruamahunga River on tho Ist inst. while intoxicated and while the river was in flood. Auckland, November 10. A little girl named Irving, who was badly burned at Puherua, has died from the injuries she received,