ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 42

ACCIDENTS

DUNEDIN, January 30. Henry Bowling, caretaker of the Gold Chair pontoons, has been missing from Roxburgh for a fortnight. It is supposed he has been drowned in the river.

A man named James McClaskey was accidentally drowned from the Success dredge this morning through a boat getting swamped. The manager also had a narrow escape. MANGAWEKA, January 30. Larry O’Brien, while working in.Mangaweka station yard this morning, was seriously hurt by a fall of earth. The full extent of his injuries is not known, but lie has a wound in the forehead and his wrist is broken.

NAPIER, January 30. Robert Iveeley and David Stuart, while working in the roadstead yesterday, met with a serious accident. Whilst removing the hatches on one of the frozen meat steamers some of the sections fell on them. Keeley was badly hurt about the head, and Stuart vas injured on the thigh, and sprained an ankle. They were conveyed to the hospital, where both are doiine favourably.

HAMILTON, January 31. The body of Mr R. N. C. Tennent, the theological student who was drowned on Monday in the Waikato river, at Hamilton, has been found in the river between Ngaruawahia and Taupiri. CHRISTCHURCH, January 30. Ims evening a man named James Bast-on, a builder, was crossing the railway lino at Opawa in a dray laden i vi ““ timber, when a train bound for Bytteiton struck the protruding ends of timber, overturning the dray, and seriously injuring Gaston. CHRISTCHURCH, February 2 evell ' ng a maa named Samuel Griffiths, sexton .of the Addington CemeN ew Brighton with\two friends to fish in the surf. They were dragging a trawl net and were about up to their shoulders in water. Griffiths who was holding the spread, suddenly disa P > e ni red ‘ i Tt 1S su PP° sed that he got into a hole and was carried away by the aS lle \ as j nevor seen again. The body was washed up on the beach fish m Tbl n §’ considera hly mutilated by i * -iho deceased, who was married A middYi d n °V nd fOUr Sen! was ge< J ” la « named Jas Wilson was riding up from Sumner on a bicycle

last night, and goinir / head uf the machine K, l ? a very bad fall £ 0 bro£ e, hospital, where he ‘SIS fenng from concussion i . A serious accid^ft'occurilf^^t

Mr Ralph Millman bmti unfortunate young Wa ° ther tt, drowned m the harbour on S ,,?° 2 states, that the published that those who formed tt party landed at Ngahaur*? 6 ner is untrue. He” saft+u* for C leave the cratt from the ti? 4 * l **’ barking until after S *%*«