ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4396, 29 June 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, June 28. A mam named Thomas Healey, who had been riding home to Oakleigh, near Chesterhopo, from to-day’s races, was found dead this evening on the Pakowliai road, opposite the Mahora Creamery.. Deceased, wiio was a married man with two children, had only left his brother John about twenty chains from where he was picked up. . . A joeikey named Hickey, who was injured by being thrown from Waitio in the Final Steeplechase to-day, and who, it was at first thought was not much hurt, is now found to be suffering from a severe rapture. Two medical men are in attendance on him. His recovery is regarded ns doubtful. WANGANUI, June 28. A Maori girl of 14 died on Tuesday at a native settlement fifteen miles from Wanganui as a result of burns. She was warming herself at a fire at Kuangaroa School when her clothes caught fire. She ran outside, followed by the teacher and others, but before the fire was put out she was dreadfully burned, and she died from the shock some hours afterwards. DUNEDIN, June 28. Mr T. H. Hodge .master mariner, aged 67, of Fort Chalmers, fell down an embankment about 60ft on Thursday evening and was killed. Deceased was on his way home. The track is very narrow, and he slipped in the dark. CHRISTCHURCH, June 28. Air Robert Wallace, a farmer of Halswell, was thrown from a dray last evening and sustained serious injury to the spine.